A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
慢性
Chronic
AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
今天的艾滋病不是死刑。它可以被当作一种慢性疾病来治疗。
I think many people with a chronic illness would prefer not to have their chronic illness, simply because it's high maintenance.
我认为很多患有慢性病的人宁愿不患慢性病,仅仅因为这是一种高维护性的疾病。
Nothing irritates me more than chronic laziness in others. Mind you, it's only mental sloth I object to. Physical sloth can be heavenly.
没有什么比别人长期的懒惰更让我恼火的了。请注意,我所反对的只是精神上的懒惰。身体上的懒惰可以是天堂。
Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.
也许这只是我自己的慢性疾病和忧郁症,但我确实对它思考了很多,而且常常是在深夜的几个小时里,也就是据说死亡人数最多的时候。