disease
/dɪˈziːz/noun
1- a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury病, 疾病：
bacterial meningitis is quite a rare disease
细菌性脑膜炎是一种相当罕见的疾病
mass noun a possible cause of heart disease.心脏病的一种可能原因。
1.1
- figurative a particular quality, habit, or disposition regarded as adversely affecting a person or group of people〈喻〉弊病; 弊端：
we are suffering from the British disease of self-deprecation.
我们养成了英国式的自我贬低的弊病。
词源
Middle English （in the sense 'lack of ease; inconvenience'）： from Old French desaise 'lack of ease'， from des- (expressing reversal)+aise 'ease'.