Sickly

(superl.) Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body.

(superl.) Producing, or tending to, disease; as, a sickly autumn; a sickly climate.

(superl.) Appearing as if sick; weak; languid; pale.

(superl.) Tending to produce nausea; sickening; as, a sickly smell; sickly sentimentality.

(adv.) In a sick manner or condition; ill.

(v. t.) To make sick or sickly; -- with over, and probably only in the past participle.

整理:玛丽

• If she were sickly she would have her illusions, imaginations. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• They respected a possible baronet in the boy, between whom and the title there was only the little sickly pale Pitt Binkie. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He was of a sickly color, and his thin, sandy hair seemed to bristle up with the intensity of his emotion. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• May be she is ill in town; nothing in the world more likely, for I have a notion she is always rather sickly. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Here, its power was only a glare: a stifling, sickly glare, serving but to bring forward stains and dirt that might otherwise have slept. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• She looks sickly and cross. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Mr. Moore haunted his mill, his mill-yard, his dye-house, and his warehouse till the sickly dawn strengthened into day. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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