• vt. 使患病；使惡心；使嫌惡
• vi. 生病；變厭膩

sick,生病的，欲嘔的，-en,使。引申比喻義使震驚，使憤怒。

sicken (v.)

c. 1200, "to become ill," from sick (adj.) + -en (1). Transitive sense of "to make sick" is recorded from 1610s. Related: Sickened; sickening. The earlier verb was simply sick (Old English seocan) "to be ill, fall ill."

1. The animal began to sicken and soon died.

這只動物患了病很快就死了.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. Only Mother Shipton - once the strongest of the party - seemed to sicken and fade.

只有席蒲頓媽媽 — 以前是他們中最堅強的 — 似乎虛弱、憔悴.

來自辭典例句

3. Fitzpiers had hardly been gone an hour when Grace began to sicken.

菲茨比爾斯走后幾乎不到一個小時,格雷絲就開始發病了.

來自辭典例句

4. I began to sicken of the endless violence shown on television.

我逐漸對電視上無盡無休的暴力鏡頭感到厭惡.

來自辭典例句

5. Their business methods sicken me.

我很討厭他們做生意的手法.

來自辭典例句