3) 合成型。英語中有不少疾病名稱是由兩個或兩個以上的單詞構(gòu)成的，在這種合成的名詞中，既有拉丁詞根的，也有英語詞根的，或是兩者兼而有之，如：

傷寒 typhoid fever 

心臟病 heart trouble / attack 

胃潰瘍 gastric ulcer 

心力衰竭heart failure 

禽流感bird flu

非典型性肺炎 atypical pneumonia (SARs)

細菌性食物中毒bacterial poisoning 

高血壓 high blood pressure (hypertension)

艾滋病 AIDS ( acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome) 

4)弄清了漢英疾病的表達差異之后、再看下而“生病”一詞常見的英語表達，它們與中文表迖顯然不同，翻譯的時候要注意其不同之處：

a.  to be( become) ill/sick with. . , /sickening for...; be taken ill. . . ; be attacked with...;

The boy is probably ill with a migraine (偏頭疼）and he has become too ill to get up.

The patient on the left is sick with gall-stones (膽結(jié)石).

I think he is sickening for mumps (腮腺炎）.

The old lady was taken ill through grief (with appendicitis闌尾炎）.

b. to have /get /fall /feel some illness /to suffer from...

Mr. Johnson has acute pancreatitis (急性胰腺炎）

Tom got /has got typhoid (or fever)(傷寒）.

I m afraid he has fallen ill with tubemiiosis (肺結(jié)核).

Her son felt ill /sick(想嘔吐）this morning.

Many children fell ill from malnutrition (營養(yǎng)不良）.

The old man suffered from an ailment (身體不適）.