She became seriously ill and had to be institutionalized for a lengthy period.

她病情严重，不得不被长期收容治疗。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

She is absent today. Can she be ill again?

今天她没来，莫非又生了病不成？

《新英汉大辞典》

When my wife was very ill she told me that she would be happy if I had the luck to find a man, because I was gay in my teenage years and she thought I would like to renew that experience.

当我的妻子生了重病，她告诉我，如果我能很幸运地找到个男朋友，她将会很开心的。因为我年轻时是同志，她相信我很愿意再成为同志的。

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Last year she claimed to be too ill to attend court proceedings relating to a separate charge of misappropriation of public funds.

BBC: Yulia Tymoshenko

It would be ill-advised, she thinks, to claim that profit-seeking makes one inherently corrupt, especially if it is balanced by other virtues.

WSJ: Cultural Conversation: The New Theories of Moral Sentiments

While she knew that now the servants would be decided against her, Husna felt she could afford their ill will, for her position in the household was growing stronger daily.

NEWYORKER: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders