sickly的意思|sickly的解释-里氏词典

sickly ['sikli]

a. 病弱的, 令人不快的, 无精打采的

ad. 病态地

vt. 使现病容

sickly
sicklier, sickliest

[ adj ]

unhealthy looking

<adj.all>

somewhat ill or prone to illness

<adj.all>

my poor ailing grandmother

feeling a bit indisposed today

you look a little peaked

feeling poorly

a sickly child

is unwell and can't come to work

Sickly \Sick"ly\, a. [Compar. {Sicklier}; superl. {Sickliest}.]
1. Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease;
as, a sickly body.

This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. --Shak.

2. Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a
sickly climate. --Cowper.

3. Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.

The moon grows sickly at the sight of day. --Dryden.

Nor torrid summer's sickly smile. --Keble.

4. Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell;
sickly sentimentality.

Syn: Diseased; ailing; infirm; weakly; unhealthy; healthless;
weak; feeble; languid; faint.

Sickly \Sick"ly\, adv.
In a sick manner or condition; ill.

My people sickly [with ill will] beareth our marriage.
--Chaucer.

Sickly \Sick"ly\, v. t.
To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in
the past participle. [R.]

Sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. --Shak.

Sentiments sicklied over . . . with that cloying
heaviness into which unvaried sweetness is too apt to
subside. --Jeffrey.

The Twiggs contend their healthy newborn daughter was swapped nearly 10 years ago for a sickly one at Hardee Memorial Hospital in Wauchula.
The official news agency Tass said the meeting will cover measures for curing the sickly Soviet economy, the economic five-year plan that starts in 1991 and a speech by Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov, who handles economic matters.
Mayor Richard S. Caliguiri, who helped transform Pittsburgh from a sickly steel town to a vital corporate center, died early Friday of a rare heart disease after more than a decade in office.
Wookie was sickly and bald; Sweet Pea was extremely ill and emaciated.
"Should it turn into months, that would be depressing." What's more, he adds, the nation's economy remains sickly despite earlier efforts by the Federal Reserve to stimulate economic activity through lower interest rates.
"Women are tested to death and begin to think they are a disaster waiting to happen." Demand for midwives is also being driven by the sickly state of obstetrics.
They adopt her as one of their own, especially sickly young Roger, who loves her as a sister and perhaps more.
Francine, who like others in the neighborhood is unwilling to give her last name, was close to two people who died, and she says she has seen many familiar faces grow thin and sickly and suddenly vanish from the streets.
It had a sweet, sickly smell." Neighbors said Puente often shouted at passers-by to stay off her lawn.
In a futile effort to reproduce before it dies, the drought-stunted wheat has formed sickly heads of grain just a few inches above the ground.
Some of the nursing homes' concerns are shared by others. Some advocate groups for the elderly worry whether increasingly sickly people, who have been the domain of nursing homes, will receive adequate care in retirement homes.
Rising rates also could intensify problems faced by hundreds of sickly thrifts by driving up their own business expenses and the cost of a federal bailout program already estimated at more than $100 billion.
They all sound as if they come the grungier reaches of British suburbia, and an initially unpromising film ends up holding you in sickly, sepulchral thrall.
Janet lives with her aunt and sickly uncle when she first goes to university.
A 17-year-old escapee from a state youth detention center was held Saturday on charges of stealing a car containing a sickly 4-month-old boy whom authorities later found next to a trash bin.
Leaders of the world's seven richest nations failed to find a common approach to shore up the sickly Soviet economy, but moved Monday toward a summit compromise allowing each country to go its own way on financial assistance to Moscow.
They did not look much at each other or even draw inspiration from conductor James Levine who, after a sickly start, began pulling hues out of the orchestra.
The challenge facing childwelfare administrators today is not identifying the "brutally battered, sexually abused, or starved and sickly" victims of maltreatment.
The Federal Reserve Board charged Hawkeye Bancorp with unsafe banking practices after the holding company refused to pump enough capital into a sickly member bank to keep it from failing.
Prices in December reached Dollars 500 a tonne, the company adds. The big question is whether the paper companies will be able to make price increases stick given the sickly state of demand.
The Twiggs have said their daughter, a healthy girl, was switched in a baby-selling scheme at Hardee Memorial Hospital in Wauchula for a sickly child.
The Kazakhs told stories of relatives crippled, retarded or sickly.
Within a few months of his birth in July 1985, John became sickly and in May the following year he was diagnosed as having AIDS.

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