We both started to feel ill shortly after the meal.

我们俩饭后不久就都开始感到不适。

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What you think it means: To feel ill.

你认为单词的含义是：感觉不舒服。

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In quieter voices, we discussed the future — when Mr. M might start to feel ill, what he should say to his employer, advance directives.

我们压低声音开始讨论后事——M先生再发病的时候，他要对雇主转述的内容，即预立医嘱。

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The meal went on much longer than anticipated, and Rousselot began to feel ill.

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For me it was both, and also profoundly saddening, to a point I began to feel ill.

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When I returned home I continued to feel ill so I went to my doctor who shrugged it off as flu.

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