Loomis turned over his ledgers. Presently he looked up, keeping his finger between the pages. "Here it is--Herman Ramy. He was one of our ordinary workmen, and left us three years and a half ago last June."
"On account of sickness?" Ann Eliza faltered. Loomis appeared to hesitate; then he said: "I see no mention of sickness." Ann Eliza felt his compassionate eyes on her again. "Perhaps I'd better tell you the truth. He was discharged for drug-taking. A capable workman, but we couldn't keep him straight.英文原著 · 《BUNNER SISTERS》
With infinite delicacy John Bunyan here tells us the sad story of Matthew's sore sickness at the House Beautiful. The cause of the sore sickness, its symptoms, its serious nature, and its complete cures are all told with the utmost plainness; but, at the same time, with the most exquisite delicacy. Bunyan calls the ancient physician who is summoned in and who effects the cure, Mr. Skill, but you must believe that Bunyan himself is Mr. Skill; and I question if this skilful writer ever wrote a more skilful page than just this page that now lies open before him who has the eyes to read it.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-2》
About this matter Lombroso is famous for the wealth of material he presents. Section 17. (4) _Nostalgia_. The question of home-sickness is of essential significance and must not be undervalued. It has been much studied and the notion has been reached that children mainly (in particular during the period of puberty), and idiotic and weak persons, suffer much from home-sickness, and try to combat the oppressive feeling of dejection
[1] Mitchell: ber die Mitleidenschaft der Geschlechtsteile mit dem Kopfe. Vienna 1804. [2] Blumrder: ber das Irresein. Leipzig 1836.英文原著 · 《Criminal Psychology》
And with all this he was never very well; he had, from boyhood, "enjoyed poor health." You would say he was not a man who would ever catch anything, not even an epidemic; but he was a person whom diseases would be likely to overtake, even the slowest of slow fevers. And he was n't a man to shake off anything. And yet sickness seemed to trouble him no more than poverty. He was not discontented; he never grumbled. I am not sure but he relished a "spell of sickness" in haying-time.英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-1》
"You have me there certainly," he said. "But I think you have something else in your mind. You'll say, I suppose, that we were all watching the wood; but were we? Frankly, I could almost fancy the peacock trees did strike me with a sort of sickness-- a sleeping sickness."英文原著 · 《The Trees of Pride》
And now only cometh unto him the great terror, the great outlook, the great sickness, the great nausea, the great sea-sickness.英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
- In sickness and in health. - In sickness and in health.美剧 · 《Lie to me》
Sheila, do you promise to love and cherish Frank in sickness and-- Uh, I guess just in sickness,美剧 · 《Shameless》
Well, you see, I had a turn, like a burst of sickness, just sudden-like.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health,美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
And it deserves not to be deemed anything but a pernicious sickness." and it deserves not to be deemed anything but a pernicious sickness."演讲 · 《Love, no matter what ~ Andrew Solomon》