day 68serious illness

serious illness

Talk about serious illness, screening, vaccines and addiction, and say what a lucky break saved you from with 幸亏 / 幸好……，不然 / 否则…….

today’s words

• 癌 ái · cancer
• 癌症 áizhèng · cancer (the illness)
• 肿瘤 zhǒngliú · tumour
• 恶性 èxìng · malignant; vicious
• 晚期 wǎnqī · late stage, final period
• 艾滋病 àizībìng · AIDS
• 糖尿病 tángniàobìng · diabetes
• 高血压 gāoxuèyā · high blood pressure
• 瘟疫 wēnyì · plague, pestilence
• 防疫 fángyì · epidemic prevention
• 疫苗 yìmiáo · vaccine
• 隔离 gélí · to isolate, quarantine
• 筛查 shāichá · to screen (for a disease)
• 确诊 quèzhěn · to confirm a diagnosis
• 并发症 bìngfāzhèng · complication (medical)
• 后遗症 hòuyízhèng · after-effects, lasting damage
• 衰竭 shuāijié · failure (of an organ); exhaustion
• 致命 zhìmìng · deadly, fatal
• 性命 xìngmìng · (a person’s) life
• 畸形 jīxíng · deformed; abnormal
• 痴呆 chīdāi · dementia; dull-witted
• 精神病 jīngshénbìng · mental illness
• 抑郁症 yìyùzhèng · depression (the illness)
• 瘾 yǐn · addiction; craving
• 上瘾 shàngyǐn · to get addicted, be hooked
• 酗酒 xùjiǔ · to drink heavily
• 戒 jiè · to give up, quit (a habit)
• 阳性 yángxìng · positive (test result)
• 阴性 yīnxìng · negative (test result)
• 蛀牙 zhùyá · tooth decay, a cavity

sentences

• 幸亏发现得早，否则就是晚期了。 · Luckily it was caught early; otherwise it would have been late-stage.
• 幸好他把烟戒了，不然身体早就不行了。 · It’s a good thing he gave up smoking, or his health would have gone long ago.
• 糖尿病最可怕的是并发症。 · The worst thing about diabetes is the complications.
• 检查结果是阴性，大家都放心了。 · The test came back negative, and everyone was relieved.
• 他打游戏上瘾了，一玩就是一整天。 · He’s hooked on video games: once he starts, he plays all day.