disease: [14] Disease and malaise are parallel formations: both denote etymologically an ‘impairment of ease or comfort’. Disease comes from Old French desaise, a compound formed from the prefix dis- ‘not, lacking’ and aise ‘ease’, and in fact at first meant literally ‘discomfort’ or ‘uneasiness’. It was only towards the end of the 14th century that this sense began to narrow down in English to ‘sickness’. (Malaise was borrowed from French malaise, an Old French formation from mal ‘bad’ and aise.) => ease, malaise
disease (n.)
early 14c., "discomfort, inconvenience," from Old French desaise "lack, want; discomfort, distress; trouble, misfortune; disease, sickness," from des- "without, away" (see dis-) + aise "ease" (see ease). Sense of "sickness, illness" in English first recorded late 14c.; the word still sometimes was used in its literal sense early 17c.
雙語例句
1. The conditions are ripe for the spread of disease.
這種疾病傳播的條件已經成熟。
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2. The disease wiped out 40 million rabbits at a stroke.
該疾病一下子就使4,000萬只兔子喪命。
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3. Smoking places you at serious risk of cardiovascular and respiratory disease.
吸煙會大大增加罹患心血管和呼吸道疾病的風險。
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4. Depression lowers the human ability to cope with disease.
抑郁癥會降低人體對疾病的抵抗力。
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5. When not removed, plaque causes tooth decay and gum disease.