Word · CEFR B2 · Frequency #22759
malady
疾病；病症；痼疾
a disease or ailment of the body, especially a lingering or deep-seated disorder
- 1.
Any ailment or disease of the body; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.
疾病；尤指慢性或顽固的失调。
- 2.
any unwholesome or desperate condition
不健康或绝望的状况；弊病
- 3.
A moral or mental defect or disorder.
道德或精神上的缺陷或障碍。
- 4.
impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
疾病；生理功能受损
弊病；弊端；不良状况；道德缺陷；精神障碍；疾病；尤指慢性或顽固的失调。；不健康或绝望的状况；弊病；道德或精神上的缺陷或障碍。
In use
The doctor diagnosed the malady as a common cold.
Social media addiction is considered a modern malady.
The country's economic maladies have persisted for years.
what maladies afflict our nation?
a malady of sth
用于比喻社会或系统的弊病。
The country is suffering from a malady of corruption.
该国正遭受腐败弊病的困扰。
suffer from a malady
指患病，多用于较正式或文学语境。
She has been suffering from a mysterious malady for years.
她多年来一直受一种神秘疾病的折磨。
cure a malady
Connections
Collocations
- chronic malady
- 慢性疾病；顽疾
- The old man has lived with a chronic malady for twenty years.这位老人患慢性疾病已有二十年。
- mysterious malady
- 神秘的疾病；难以诊断的怪病
- The village was struck by a mysterious malady no one could explain.这个村庄遭到了一种无人能解释的神秘疾病侵袭。
- social malady
- 社会弊病；社会痼疾
- The novel explores poverty as a social malady of the nineteenth century.这部小说探讨了贫困这一十九世纪的社会弊病。
- incurable malady
- 不治之症
- The doctor told her that the incurable malady would progress slowly.医生告诉她，这种不治之症会缓慢恶化。
- mental malady
- 精神疾病；心理疾病
- In the nineteenth century, mental maladies were often misunderstood.在十九世纪，精神疾病常常被误解。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
联想记忆：mal- 常见于 malfunction、malnutrition，都带“坏、病”之意；malady 即“疾病、弊病”。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：正式写作、医学文献、文学描述 malady 是比较正式甚至带文学色彩的词，多用于书面语或较严肃的描写，日常口语中较少见。它既可以指身体疾病，也可指社会弊病或精神、道德上的缺陷。
Grammar Note
通常用于正式或文学语境，指疾病或社会弊病。
Pronunciation & Spelling
No common English word rhymes exactly with malady (/ˈmæl.ə.di/). All the words here end in the spelled -dy /di/, but their stressed vowels differ. melody and remedy share the final /ə.di/ but have /ɛ/; lady is spelled inside malady but sounds different; tragedy has the same /æ/ vowel but /dʒ/ instead of /l/ after it.
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