Invalid

(noun.) someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury.

(verb.) force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen.

(adj.) no longer valid; 'the license is invalid' .

(adj.) having no cogency or legal force; 'invalid reasoning'; 'an invalid driver's license' .

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• The child in speaking gave to his motion the jerk and limp of an invalid. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Everybody is ill now, I think,' said Mrs. Hale, with a little of the jealousy which one invalid is apt to feel of another. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The Vicar, after a glass of port, was obliged to hurry away to a meeting, and the shy nephew, who appeared to be an invalid, was packed off to bed. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The Holy Roman Empire struggled on indeed to the days of Napoleon, but as an invalid and dying thing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I need hardly say, that if there is any little thing that could serve Mrs. Hale as an invalid, you will offer it, I'm sure. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• We expressed our acknowledgments and sat down behind the door, where there was a lame invalid of a sofa. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• My uncle, Mr. Fairlie, never joins us at any of our meals: he is an invalid, and keeps bachelor state in his own apartments. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Marianne had been two or three days at home, before the weather was fine enough for an invalid like herself to venture out. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• From that day forwards Mrs. Hale became more and more of a suffering invalid. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• He is an ass, and I am an invalid, and we are likely to make all sorts of mistakes between us. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• He had been, or had fancied himself to be, an invalid for years past, and he was not well enough to receive me. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Iron, Brass, Springs, Surgical and Invalid Chairs and Beds. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Osborne said to his friend's remonstrances, when they quitted the invalid, leaving him under the hands of Doctor Gollop. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Those languishing years would follow of which none but the invalid and her immediate friends feel the heart-sickness and know the burden. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But her father set too high a standard, and too abstract a view, before the indolent invalid. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• You would compare them, I said, to those invalids who, having no self-restraint, will not leave off their habits of intemperance? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Then the two invalids were ordered to repose, which they did, by both sitting in one big chair and talking hard. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Such cases are very common, he said, with invalids of this sort. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• But I have never been ill myself, so I am not much up to invalids' fancies. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• Beth had a rapture with her mother, and then rushed up to impart the glorious news to her family of invalids, as the girls were not home. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• But Sir Percival and his lordship declared that they were both willing to put up with inconvenience for the sake of the invalids. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• We invalids think we are privileged people. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Rushing upstairs, she startled the invalids by exclaiming tragically as she burst into the room, Oh, do somebody go down quick! 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The invalids improved rapidly, and Mr. March began to talk of returning early in the new year. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.

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