跟英语达人Lucy学有关疾病与安康的地道英式英语表达

原标题：跟英语达人Lucy学有关疾病与安康的地道英式英语表达

13 IDIOMS for ILLNESS, SICKNESS & HEALTH

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- Hello everyone and welcome back to English With Lucy.

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Today I am bringing you loads of idioms

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related to sickness, illness and health,

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The first idiom is actually one used to say

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you don't feel unwell, you feel very good,

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it isto feel as fit as a fiddle

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and a fiddle is another word for a violin,

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so if you feel as fit as a fiddle, you feel great,

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I, right now feel as fit as a fiddle.

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Another one isto be a picture of health,

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if you are a picture of health,

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you are a great example of good health,

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you could say, my friend was struggling with an illness,

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but now she is a picture of health,

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she is really, really healthy.

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Now the next one is negative

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and this is to have a splitting headache

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and to have a splitting headache

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is to have a really, really bad headache,

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can you imagine it, to split your head?

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Very painful, anyone who has suffered

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with a migraine will understand that,

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I've only had one in my life,

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but it was a very, very bad couple of days.

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The next one is one you have probably heard before,

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because when I ask for examples of idioms from my students,

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they always say this one or it's raining cats and dogs,

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which is an idiom we don't use very frequently,

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but the one I want to talk about

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is to be, look orfeel under the weather,

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I normally use it with look, I might say,

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ooh, you look a bit under the weather

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and then the person could reply,

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yes, I am feeling a bit under the weather

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and this means to look, feel or be unwell,

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it's quite a nice way of saying it,

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because you don't want to say to someone, you lookdreadful,

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you want to say, you look a little bit under the weather,

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are you unwell, are you feeling okay?

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The next one is another negative one,

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it is to take a turn for the worse,

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if you take a turn for the worse,

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it means you are iller or sicker than you were before,

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so I could say, I had a cold,

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but then I took a turn for the worse

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and I had to go to hospital, so I was quite ill

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and then I got really ill and I had to go to hospital,

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you can use it in a positive way,

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you can say, to take a turn for the better,

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but it's not as common.

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The next one is to be black and blue,

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I wonder if you can guess

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what this one might be, black and blue?

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If you're black and blue,

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it means that you have quite a few bruises,

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so the marks you get after you've been hit,

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so if you are very bruised, then you could say

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that you are black and blue, this relates to the next one,

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because the next one isto take a tumble,

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if you have taken a tumble, it means you have fallenover,

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so if you fall over and you get bruises,

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you can say, ooh, I've taken a tumble

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and I'm black and blue,

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see if your English teacher understands you,

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when you say that. (laughs)

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The next one isto go under the knife,

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this means to have an operation,

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but it also can refer to cosmetic surgery,

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so if somebody says, she's been under the knife,

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it means she's had cosmetic surgery,

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but if I said, I had a really sore leg,

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but I went under the knife,

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it means I had a sore leg, but now I've had an operation.

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Now the next one istobe on one's last legs

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and this means that somebody is very close to exhaustion,

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to being very, very tired and collapsing or even death,

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so if somebody says, I think they're on their last legs,

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it means, I don't think they're going to live very long,

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which is obviously very, very, very sad,

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but in Britain especially,

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we like to use a lot of idiomatic phrases

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around very serious situations,

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so instead of to die, we sayto pop one's clogs,

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you've popped your clogs,

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it's just a way of dealing with something quite serious,

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so if someone's on their last legs,

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we're not trying to be funny, we're not joking,

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we just, that's how we deal

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with a really difficult, sad situation.

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Another one that's quite similar

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isto be hanging by a thread,

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it means you're very close to either

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the situation becoming very serious or even to death.

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The last one is actually my favourite health-relatedidiom,

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because it's so funny, (laughs)

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I find it really funny,

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it is to feel like, or to look like death warmed up,

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again, this is an idiom, I would love to know

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if you have an example of this one in your own language,

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if somebody looks just dreadful,

so ill, so unwell,

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pale, grey, big bags under their eyes,

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you can tell them they look like death warmed up,

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it's just such a funny phrase,

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you can't not smile, when somebody says that to you,

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unless you're feeling like death warmed up of course.

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So yeah, see if you can use that

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in conversation with a native,

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because I think they will really find that quite funny.

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