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In law, an aggravated offence is a crime made more serious by something extra the criminal did. Assault is already hitting someone; aggravated assault is hitting someone with a knife, or in a way the law treats as worse.
In law在法律上, an aggravated offence aggravated offence（加重罪行） is a crime made more serious by something extra the criminal did指的是因為罪犯多做了什麼，而讓一項罪變得更嚴重的犯罪. Assault assault（傷害罪） is already hitting someone本身已經是打人; aggravated assault aggravated assault（加重傷害罪） is hitting someone with a knife則是用刀打人, or in a way the law treats as worse或者以法律認為更嚴重的方式打人.
Theft can become an aggravated offence if someone is hurt during it. The extra fact makes the original crime heavier, and the punishment may be heavier too.
Theft Theft（竊盜） can become an aggravated offence就可能變成aggravated offence if someone is hurt during it如果在過程中有人受傷. The extra fact那個額外的事實 makes the original crime heavier讓原本的罪變得更重, and the punishment may be heavier too處罰也可能跟著加重.
This is courtroom and news language. Though actually, in everyday American talk people also say “I was aggravated” meaning “I was .” That is a looser, different job for the same family of words.
This這 is courtroom and news language是法庭和新聞用語. Though actually不過其實, in everyday American talk people also say "I was aggravated"在日常美式口語裡，人們也會說"I was aggravated", meaning "I was annoyed."意思是"我很煩". That那 is a looser, different job for the same family of words是同一個字族比較鬆散、不同的用法.
When you see aggravated offence or aggravated assault, it is not “the angry crime.” It is “the crime made more serious.”
When you see aggravated offence or aggravated assault當你看到aggravated offence或aggravated assault時, it是 not "the angry crime."指的不是"生氣的罪", It它 is "the crime made more serious."而是"變得更嚴重的罪".
組成The -ed form of aggravate: Latin ad- (“to”) + gravis (“heavy”) — to make heavier. Here it is the legal adjective: a crime made heavier, more serious.
同家族的字
- aggravatethe verb; aggravated is its -ed form
- aggravationthe noun for making something worse
- gravefrom the same Latin gravis (“heavy, serious”); an aggravated crime is made more grave
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
aggravatedadj/ˈæɡ.ɹə.veɪ̯tɪd/
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Having been the subject of aggravation; frustrated and angry.
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Having become worse, more severe, or more dangerous.
- The cruel fallacy, long acted upon, that the insane were insensible to cold, and to other modifications of pain, is exploded; and under the new system, they are treated with the tenderest care, and ample provision is made for their every physical want. The old system inculcated that insane minds could not be stungby insult or shame, dishonor or injustice; the new teaches that “harshness and abuse fall with tenfold force upon minds impaired and enervated by disease; that in most cases of insanity enough of intelligence and feeling are retained to render the patient fully sensible of the import and the cruelty of what is said; and that in many cases the mind, instead of becoming obluse, or deadened, is endowed with an unusual sensitiveness, with an acuteness of perception, upon which the insults and insinuations of the rude, or the indelicate, or the cruel, must produce the most aggravated pain.”
- The cough seems to come from the depths of the abdomen, and causes pain in muscles and the chest: this remains a short time after the cough, which is followed by great exhaustion; cough especially aggravated at night and on lying down; sputum composed of thick yellow mucus.
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criminologyhuman-scienceslawHaving become worse, more severe, or more dangerous.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。