病

やまい
illness
disease

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やまい【病】

*illness

〖U〗病気(の状態); 〖C〗(特定の)病気

*disease

/dizíːz/ 〖U〗〖C〗.

¶ → 不治の病

¶彼らはみな～に倒れた

They were all struck (down) by illness. 《正式》.

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I

-びょう【-病】

アルツハイマー病 ⇒アルツハイマー(し)びょう.

うどん粉病 ⇒うどんこびょう.

鸚鵡病 ⇒おうむ.

沖縄病 being smitten with (the beauty of) Okinawa.

月曜病 Monday disease; not wanting to go back to work after the weekend; horror at the prospect of Monday morning.

高山病 ⇒こうざん².

五月病 ⇒ごがつびょう.

歯周病 ⇒ししゅうびょう.

循環器病 a circulatory disease [circulation problem]; a disease of the circulation.

正月病 not wanting to go back to work after the New Year; a New Year hangover.

小児病 ⇒しょうにびょう.

腎臓病 (a) kidney disease. [⇒じんぞう³]

生活習慣病 ⇒せいかつしゅうかん.

大企業病 a disease of [a characteristic problem with] big companies.

怠け病 〔働きたがらない状態〕 laziness; idleness.

●(本当に病気なのに)医者たちは怠け病だとした. Doctors put it down to idleness.

ぶらぶら病 an inability [a pathological inability] to settle down [stay in one place]; a (pathological) need to keep on the go; a wanderlust.

冷房病 ⇒れいぼう².

わがまま病 〔幸福に気づかず不満を並べる状態〕 pathological complaining; a pathological inability to see the bright side of things.

II

やまい【病】

1 〔病気〕 (an) illness; a disease. [＝びょうき]

●胸の病 tuberculosis

・気の病 a disease without a physical cause; a psychosomatic disease

・心の病 a mental illness [disorder]; a nervous disorder

・恋の病 lovesickness

・不治の病 an incurable [a fatal] illness.

●病が癒える recover from one's illness; get well; be restored to health; be oneself again

・病が篤(_あつ)い be dangerously [seriously, critically] ill

・病があらたまる one's illness takes a sudden turn for the worse; one's condition changes suddenly

・夜半に病があらたまり未明にはかなくなった. Her condition changed suddenly in the middle of the night, and before dawn she had expired.

●病にかかる get [fall, become, be taken] ill [sick]; contract a disease; be afflicted [seized, attacked] with a disease; suffer from a disease

・不治の病に取りつかれる contract a fatal illness

・重い病に倒れる be (struck) down by a serious illness

・これからという時に病に倒れた. He was struck down by illness just as his life was beginning to show such promise.

・病には勝てない. There is no contending against illness.

●病の床に臥す be sick [ill] in bed; be laid up; be confined to bed with illness.

●病を得る contract an illness [a disease]

・病を癒す cure an illness [a disease]; cure sb of an illness [a disease]

・病を養う 〔治療を受ける〕 undergo [receive] medical treatment; 〔療養する〕 recuperate; convalesce

・彼女は海辺の療養所に病を養っていた. She was recuperating at a sanatorium near the ocean.

・彼は病を押して会議に臨んだ. He attended the conference in spite of his illness.

●病は気から. Care killed the cat. 【諺】 | Worry is often the cause of illness. | Illness originates in the mind.| The mind rules the body.

・病は口より入(_い)り災いは口より出(_い)ず. Disease enters through the mouth and misfortune issues from it. | One should be as careful of what one says as of what one eats.

2 〔悪癖〕 a (bad) habit; 〔短所〕 a weakness; a failing; 〔熱中の度合〕 a passion.

●持った病 an inveterate habit [vice]

・持った病は直らない. You cannot make a crab walk straight.

●病が高じる become [grow] avid 《about…》

・軽い気持ちで始めた写真だったが, 今や病が高じて自宅に暗室を作りたいと思うほどになった. I started photography as a casual hobby, but now it's reached the point [stage] where I plan to install my own darkroom.