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 ailing ['elɪŋ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 生病的

[医] 患病的, 病痛的


  1. Chronically ailing; sickly.
    体弱的慢性疼痛的;易生病的
  2. That child is ailing.
    小孩生病了。
  3. The ailing old man kept puffing out a"Thank you" as I supported him home.
    当我扶着那个有病的老人回家时,他不断气吁吁地说“谢谢你”。


ailing
[ adj ]
somewhat ill or prone to illness
<adj.all>
my poor ailing grandmotherfeeling a bit indisposed today
you look a little peaked
feeling poorly
a sickly child
is unwell and can't come to work


Ail \Ail\ ([=a]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ailed} ([=a]ld); p. pr.
& vb. n. {Ailing}.] [OE. eilen, ailen, AS. eglan to trouble,
pain; akin to Goth. us-agljan to distress, agls troublesome,
irksome, aglo, aglitha, pain, and prob. to E. awe. [root]3.]
To affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental;
to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some
uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what
ails the man? I know not what ails him.

What aileth thee, Hagar? --Gen. xxi.
17.

Note: It is never used to express a specific disease. We do
not say, a fever ails him; but, something ails him.

ailing \ailing\ adj.
sick; unhealthy. Opposite of {well} or {healthy}.

Syn: indisposed, peaked(predicate), poorly(predicate),
sickly, unwell.
[WordNet 1.5]

  1. It was unclear what sort of assistance the economically ailing Soviet Union might be willing to lend.
  2. Citicorp's decision on Tuesday to take a huge earnings charge, after a major increase in its loan-loss reserves, raises questions about ailing BankAmerica's own treatment of its huge cache of troubled foreign loans.
  3. But Grand Met is confident it can do for Totino's frozen pizza, the Jolly Green Giant and Haagen Dazs what it has already done for Absolut vodka, Baileys Original Irish Cream and an ailing chain of British steakhouses called Berni Inn.
  4. The Bush budget revisions would include the $1.9 billion cost to taxpayers next year of his program to bail out the ailing savings and loan industry.
  5. Biaggi also was convicted in November 1987 of accepting an illegal gratuity _ a paid vacation _ for helping an ailing New York shipyard.
  6. Federal banking regulators agreed in principle to pump $970 million into ailing First City Bancorp. of Texas, handing over management of the Houston banking company to a group led by former Chicago banker A. Robert Abboud.
  7. "The numbers are all negotiable," presidential press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said Wednesday after announcing a White House plan to give Poland an additional $200 million to help restructure its ailing economy.
  8. The Red Cross estimates 1,000 ailing or disabled POWs are still held by both sides.
  9. The first democratically elected Hungarian leader to visit the White House in four decades is taking home a packet of Bush administration pledges to help his ailing economy.
  10. Earlier, Salim Mansoor, an Iraqi-American who met with Saddam, said 14 ailing or elderly Americans would be freed today.
  11. Regulators said they took the move against the small company to shelter the insurer's assets from what they termed the financially ailing parent, which is controlled by Mr. Pharaon.
  12. Delta is in talks with Pan Am to acquire a share of the ailing carrier.
  13. A spokesman for the House of Hapsburg, Bernd Posselt, said she had not been treated for any particular illness but "just faded away" after ailing for some time.
  14. First RepublicBank Corp., an ailing Texas banking concern, has switched investment bankers as it readies a bailout proposal for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
  15. Mario Vazquez Rana last year purchased the ailing United Press International news service.
  16. Mr. Marckesano recalls how labor demands backfired in 1986 at ailing Eastern Airlines, where some of the unions refused to give concessions to former Eastern Chairman Frank Borman.
  17. So rather than push for healthy banks to take over insolvent S&Ls, Mr. Wall has tried to force the ailing S&Ls into dubious mergers.
  18. Salomon has said it will take a pretax charge of as much as $200 million, expected in this quarter, to shrink the ailing unit.
  19. US Vice-President Al Gore yesterday offered American support for launching 'comprehensive economic reform' to stabilise Ukraine's ailing economy.
  20. Mr. Peres's Labor Party appears more vulnerable than Likud, because the Labor-allied Histadrut trade union federation owns or controls many of the ailing industries, chief among them Koor and the nation's largest insurance company.
  21. The ailing unit has accumulated a string of losses in recent years, including a $30 million loss in 1984.
  22. Horn & Hardart Co. said it disposed of 33 Bojangles' fast-food restaurants in Florida as part of a retrenchment at its ailing fast-food chain.
  23. The ailing Honecker, in a letter sent to the party leadership nearly a month ago and released to the delegates Saturday, conceded he had "deceived" himself about the state of the economy and the mood of the people.
  24. Havel shrugged off a question on whether he was concerned that the Persian Gulf crisis was draining away money that could have been used to help support his country's ailing economy.
  25. Erich Honecker was ousted by his own Politburo on Oct. 18. Prosecutors investigating Honecker, who is 77 and ailing, probably will try him on charges of high treason and corruption.
  26. Sen. Proxmire proposed legislation that would raise only half the money that the Reagan administration wants for the ailing FSLIC.
  27. A 77-year-old man accused in the mercy killing of his ailing wife received reassurances from family members as he attended her funeral in the company of the county sheriff.
  28. The union also agreed to make concessions to keep open the fourth facility, the company's ailing Eau Claire, Wis., plant.
  29. Neither the Gokal brothers nor Mr. Abedi, who is ailing, were available for comment.
  30. Reality softened his hard-line stance, and an ailing economy forced his government to implement conservative monetary policies.
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