3) 合成型。英语中有不少疾病名称是由两个或两个以上的单词构成的，在这种合成的名词中，既有拉丁词根的，也有英语词根的，或是两者兼而有之，如：

伤寒 typhoid fever 

心脏病 heart trouble / attack 

胃溃疡 gastric ulcer 

心力衰竭heart failure 

禽流感bird flu

非典型性肺炎 atypical pneumonia (SARs)

细菌性食物中毒bacterial poisoning 

高血压 high blood pressure (hypertension)

艾滋病 AIDS ( acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome) 

4)弄清了汉英疾病的表达差异之后、再看下而“生病”一词常见的英语表达，它们与中文表迖显然不同，翻译的时候要注意其不同之处：

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

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

The patient on the left is sick with gall-stones (胆结石).

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

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

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)(伤寒）.

I m afraid he has fallen ill with tubemiiosis (肺结核).

Her son felt ill /sick(想呕吐）this morning.

Many children fell ill from malnutrition (营养不良）.

The old man suffered from an ailment (身体不适）.