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Detriment is harm or damage — not always a broken bone, often a slow cost. The shape you will hear most is “to the detriment of…”: you gain one thing, and another thing quietly pays. He worked late to the detriment of his health. She told the whole truth, to the detriment of the friendship. It is a rather formal, grown-up noun; in easy talk people say harm, cost, or “it was bad for…”. Though actually the tidy dictionary says “harm”, but speakers stretch it to any downside, even a small one. You can also say “a detriment to” something, meaning that thing is worse off because of it.
損害、不利
組成From Old French detriement, from Latin detrimentum, “loss, damage”, literally a rubbing-off. Built from dē- (down, away) + terere (to rub, to wear) + the old noun ending that gives English -ment. Related to detritus (what is rubbed away). Built on similar foundations to impediment: both are old Latin nouns in -mentum, even though the first half is not the same.
同家族的字
- detritussame Latin “rub away” root — the bits left after the wearing
- impedimentsame old -ment building pattern, not the same first half
- detrimentalthe adjective: causing this kind of harm
原始詞典資料5 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。
detrimentnoun/ˈdɛtɹɪmənt/
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Harm, hurt, damage.
- “But marriage in secret, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch — a fatal secret. I receive money from you, and I'm suddenly asked the question, 'What's that money for?' My hands are tied; I cannot answer to the detriment of my sister, to the detriment of the family honour.”
- "Would it be fair to say that when it came to making trouble, you'd make up for what you didn't absolutely know . . . and to our detriment?"
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obsoleteA charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.
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astrologyhuman-sciencesmysticismThe position or state of a planet when it is in the sign opposite its house, considered to weaken it.
- Saturn, Jupiter and Mars from their conjunction to their opposition with the Sun are Oriental, and gain two fortitudes; but from their Opposition to their Conjunction are occidental, and incur two detriments.
- DEJECTION [with Astrol.] said of the planets, when in their detriment, i.e. when they have lost their force or influence by reason of being in opposition to some other, which check and contract them.
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governmentheraldryhobbiesThe position or state of being eclipsed, entirely dark (sable).
- Argent, a Moon in her detriment or Eclipse Sable[…]
- Moon in its Detriment, or Wane
detrimentverb/ˈdɛtɹɪmənt/
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obsoleteTo be detrimental to; to harm or mar.
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。