healthy

英 ['helθ?] 美['h?lθi]

反義詞

CET4TEM4考研CET6中頻詞常用詞匯

比較級:?healthier;最高級:?healthiest;副詞:?healthily;名詞:?healthiness;

healthy (adj.): 1550s, "being in a sound state;" also "conducive to health," from health + -y (2). Earlier in the same sense was healthsome (1530s). Related: Healthily; healthiness.
It is wrong to say that certain articles of food are healthy or unhealthy. Wholesome and unwholesome are the right words. A pig may be healthy or unhealthy while alive; but after he is killed and becomes pork, he can enjoy no health, and suffer no sickness. [Eliza Leslie, "Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book," Philadelphia, 1839]
Healthsome is from 1530s in the sense "bestowing health."

1. The birth of a live healthy baby is a truly blessed event.: 一個健康活潑的嬰兒的出生真是一件可喜的事情。

2. Was it just a temporary blip on an otherwise healthy growth curve?: 這是否是原本良好的增長曲線中暫時的偏離？

3. The film opened to healthy box office receipts before rapidly falling off.: 這部影片的票房收入開始的時候持續(xù)上漲，但是后來急劇下降。

5. My department had a healthy interest in keeping expenses down.: 我部門對維持低水平開支有濃厚興趣。