Malady
Malady 是一个比较文学化或正式的词汇:
- 医学: 指身体的疾病,尤其是那些持续时间较长、难以根治的慢性病。
- 隐喻: 指社会、组织或人性格中的严重弊端或“毒瘤”(如 the maladies of modern society)。
- “Violent crime is a malady that plagues many large cities.” (暴力犯罪是困扰许多大城市的一种社会弊病。)
- “He suffered from a mysterious malady that no doctor could diagnose.” (他患有一种没有任何医生能够诊断出的神秘疾病。)
- “The country’s economic maladies require urgent structural reforms.” (该国的经济弊端需要紧急的结构性改革。)
- mal-: 词根源自拉丁语 malus,意为“坏的”。
- -ady: 可能源自古法语,与“习惯”或“状态”有关。最终源自拉丁语 male habitus,意为“状态不佳”。
- 前缀: mal- (bad)。
- 同根词: malice (恶意), malfunction (故障)。
在 19 世纪的文学作品中,malady 经常被用来形容那些由于忧郁或相思而产生的“心病”。在现代英语中,它更多地用于正式讨论社会问题。
- 复数形式: maladies
记住前缀 mal- 表示“坏”。Malady 就是一种“坏的状态”,即疾病或弊病。
In the old kingdom, the people were suffering from a strange malady called “The Sleep.” Everyone was lazy and forgot to work. The king realized that this malady was not caused by a virus, but by too much peace and too much gold. He had to find a way to cure the malady of his people’s spirit before the kingdom fell.