核心畫面
You can think of damaged as the state something is left in after it has been hit, dropped, soaked, or worn down: the thing is still here and you still recognise it, but one part of it no longer holds together, and it no longer works the way it once did.
可以想成一樣東西被撞過、摔過、泡過水之後留下來的樣子:它還在,形狀你也還認得出來,但某個地方已經裂了、鬆了、缺了一塊…更多收起
可以想成一樣東西被撞過、摔過、泡過水之後留下來的樣子:它還在,形狀你也還認得出來,但某個地方已經裂了、鬆了、缺了一塊,於是不再照原本的方式運作。damaged 說的就是這個「還在,可是壞了一處」的狀態——不是整個消失,而是帶著傷痕繼續存在。原始詞典資料2 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。
damagedadj/ˈdæmɪd͡ʒd/
- 1
That has suffered damage.
- The rebuilding of damaged stations is proceeding slowly, on account of the shortage of building materials and the pressing needs of housing, but steady progress is being made.
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。