All the years he was sick my mother had nursed him.

在他有病的那些年里，我母亲一直照顾他。

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Presently it occurred to him that he wished he was sick; then he could stay home from school.

过了一会儿，他突然有了想法，他希望自己生病了；然后他就可以呆在家里不去上学了。

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He was sick, he said, and he looked it.

他说他病了，他看上去也确实病了。

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He was sick only two days. They found him the morning of the first day in his room downstairs helpless with pain.

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When he was sick, his grandmother dressed him in white clothes she thought would help him avoid death.

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He was very tired. Within a week, his secretary announced that the president was sick.

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When Brent became a wheelchair user, Lance noticed that people treated him differently than before he was sick.

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Today, Janey is doing well and still taking care of me, just as well as she took care of me and my dad when he was sick.

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The flu epidemic didn't spare Hollywood as actor Tommy Lee Jones reportedly missed out of picking up his statue for outstanding male actor in a supporting role for "Lincoln" because he was sick.

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