Word · Frequency #2342
symptom
症状
A change in the body that indicates a disease.
- 1.
A perceived change in some function, sensation or appearance of a person that indicates a disease or disorder, such as fever, headache or rash; strictly, a symptom is felt or experienced by the patient, while a sign can be detected by an observer.
患者感觉到的功能、感觉或外观变化,表明疾病或失调,如发热、头痛或皮疹。
- 2.
(medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease
患者感受到的与特定疾病相关的任何感觉或身体功能变化(医学)
- 3.
A signal; anything that indicates, or is characteristic of, the presence of something else, especially of something undesirable.
信号,指示或特征性地表明某物(尤指不良事物)存在的任何事物。
- 4.
anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence
伴随X并被视为X存在迹象的任何事物
患者感觉到的功能、感觉或外观变化,表明疾病或失调,如发热、头痛或皮疹。；患者感受到的与特定疾病相关的任何感觉或身体功能变化(医学)；信号,指示或特征性地表明某物(尤指不良事物)存在的任何事物。；伴随X并被视为X存在迹象的任何事物；征候
In use
One common symptom of a cold is a sore throat.
If the symptoms get worse, you should see a doctor.
A high fever is often the first symptom of this illness.
symptom of sth
表示某种疾病或状况的征兆，后接名词或名词短语。
A fever is a symptom of infection.
发烧是感染的症状。
have symptoms of sth
表示某人表现出某种疾病的症状。
She has symptoms of a cold.
她有感冒的症状。
Common mistakes
He has symptom of flu.He has a symptom of the flu.
Symptom是可数名词，单数形式需加冠词或限定词，这里应加'a'。
Connections
Collocations
- common symptom
- 常见症状
- A fever is a common symptom of many illnesses.发烧是许多疾病的常见症状。
- flu-like symptoms
- 流感样症状
- She went to the doctor because she had flu-like symptoms.她因出现流感样症状而去看医生。
- warning symptom
- 预警症状
- Chest pain can be a warning symptom of a heart attack.胸痛可能是心脏病发作的预警症状。
- symptom of
- …的症状
- Fatigue is a symptom of many chronic conditions.疲劳是许多慢性病的症状。
- symptom onset
- 症状发作
- The symptom onset was sudden and severe.症状发作突然且严重。
Idioms & figurative uses
Learner notes
Memory Tip
Symptom 音似 '心扑通'，心扑通跳是常见症状。
Context & Register
通常用于医学或健康语境，指疾病的征兆；也可隐喻指问题迹象。中性偏正式，常见于医疗、学术及新闻报道中。
Pronunciation & Spelling
Words ending in '-tom' (bottom, custom, atom, phantom) share the unstressed /təm/ ending with symptom. Autumn also ends with /təm/ despite '-umn'. System shares the stressed vowel /ɪ/ and ends with /stəm/, but its final consonant cluster differs.
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 3，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
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