| 单词 |
heart-sick |
| 释义 |
ˈheart-sick, a.
[f. heart n. + sick a.]
1. Sick at heart; fig. depressed and despondent, esp. through ‘hope deferred’ or continued trouble.
1526Skelton Magnyf. 1640 Yet I am not harte seke. 1638Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (Vol. II.) 127 The League is dead, and Spaine heartsicke. 1784Cowper Task ii. 244 Chatham, heart-sick of his country's shame. 1793Resid. France (1797) I. 442 Faint and heart-sick with the unhealthy air. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. iii. xxiv. (1888) 444, I have concealed our troubles until I am heart-sick.
2. Pertaining to or characterized by heart-sickness.
1591Greene Maiden's Dr. v, So was this Hinde with Hart-sicke pains enthralled. 1644Vicars Jehovah-Jireh 21 To recover the Kingdom of its heart-sick diseases. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 482 Qualmes Of heart-sick Agonie. 1857W. Collins Dead Secret vi. i, With a heart-sick consciousness of the slur that was cast on her birth.
3. (See quot.)
1725Bradley Fam. Dict., Heart-Sick, a Distemper incident to Oxen, and may be known by the frequent panting of the Flanks.
Hence ˈheart-sickness, heart-sick condition.
1726Dict. Rust. (ed. 3) s.v., Heart-sickness in Oxen. 1841Lytton Nt. & Morn. i. v, Catherine was..deadly pale with heart-sickness and dismay. |
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