(often in compounds常构成复合词) a continuous feeling of pain in a part of the body（身体某部位的）疼痛- Mummy, I've got a tummy ache.妈妈，我肚子疼。🔊🔊
- Muscular aches and pains can be soothed by a relaxing massage.做放松按摩可以减轻肌肉疼痛。🔊🔊
- (figurative) an ache in my heart (= a continuous sad feeling)我心中的隐痛
see also achy, backache, bellyache, headache, heartache, stomach ache, toothacheExtra Examples- He changed his position once again to ease the ache in his back.他又换了个姿势以缓解背部的疼痛。
- He was always complaining about his various aches and pains.他老抱怨自己身上这疼那疼的。
- I felt the familiar ache in my lower back.我感到腰又开始痛了。
- (figurative) She could hardly speak for the ache in her heart.她难以诉说内心的痛苦。
- (figurative) She kept feeling the nagging ache in her heart.她内心的悲痛一直挥之不去。
- a nagging ache in her knee她膝盖那无法摆脱的疼痛
- (figurative) the ache of loneliness inside him他内心的孤苦
- You get more aches and pains as you get older.年纪越大，病痛就越多。
Topics Illnessa2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + acheache + verbpreposition- ache in
- ache inside
- ache of
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phrasesSee full entry Word OriginOld English æce (noun), acan (verb). In Middle and early modern English the noun was spelled atche and rhymed with ‘batch’ and the verb was spelled and pronounced as it is today. The noun began to be pronounced like the verb around 1700. The modern spelling is largely due to Dr Johnson, who mistakenly assumed its derivation to be from Greek akhos ‘pain’.