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1. During his illness, John stayed indoors.
约翰在生病期间足不出户。

2. He has had a bad illness, but he is better now.
他得了一场大病，可是现在他好多了。

3. I have never seen her since her father fell sick of a serious illness.
自从她父亲生重病绑，我就再也没有见过她。

1. 生病：疾病(disease)客观呈现的生理症状与个人主观的生病(illness)体验意义,其实是同时并存的. 作者在书中明确地表示,突显疾病的意义不在於否定生理症状的事实,也不是要眾人漠视医疗与养生的功能,而是為了唤醒常人「洞观」生理症状背后的心灵意义层面,

2. 病痛：在文化及心理病理(cultural and psychological pathology)与医疗人类学(medical anthropology)的知识领域裡头,与身体(body)之论述相关者,大抵有两个重要而互相牵连的议题,一是有关对病痛(illness)与疾病(disease)的分野,

1. 疾病;患病(期)
Illness is the fact or experience of being ill.

e.g. If your child shows any signs of illness, take her to the doctor...
如果您的孩子出现任何患病症状,带她去看医生。
e.g. Mental illness is still a taboo subject.
精神疾病仍然是禁忌话题。

2. (特指某种)疾病
An illness is a particular disease such as measles or pneumonia.

e.g. She returned to her family home to recover from an illness.
她回家养病来了。

noun

1. impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism

Synonym: unwellnessmaladysickness