Sickness often prostrates people.是什么意思？

Sickness often prostrates people.

疾病常使人们衰弱.

sickness

n. 疾病，恶心，呕吐，弊病；

例句
When he returned, he noticed their sickness and prepared an antidote.
他回来后注意到了他们的病状，于是配制了解毒剂。

often

adv. 常常，经常，时常，再三；

例句
Genetic abnormalities are more often associated with faults in paternal DNA than in maternal DNA.
相对于母本DNA,基因畸变往往更多地与父本DNA上的缺陷相关。

prostrates

v. 使俯伏，使拜倒( prostrate的第三人称单数 )，（指疾病、天气等）使某人无能为力；

例句
Sickness often prostrates people.
疾病常使人们衰弱.

people

n. 人，人类，居民，人民，种族；vt. 居住于，布满，使住满人，在…殖民，把动物放养在；

例句
Most people have very little difficulty in seeing why a Van Gogh is a work of genius.
多数人不难理解为什么凡·高的作品是天才之作。