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If something is detrimental, it causes harm or damage. Teachers, doctors, and news writers love this word: smoking is detrimental to your health; too much screen time can be detrimental to sleep. The safe partner is to: detrimental to someone or something. It sounds serious and a little official — stronger than “not good”, a bit cooler than “dangerous”. Though actually people use it for slow, quiet harm as much as for sudden damage: a habit, a rule, a joke that lands badly. It does not mean the thing is evil; it means the effect wears you down.
有害的、不利的
組成detriment (harm) + -al (makes an adjective). From Medieval Latin dētrīmentālis, from Latin dētrīmentum (harm), from dēterō (to rub off, wear), from dē- (down, away) + terō (to rub).
同家族的字
- detrimentthe noun this adjective comes from
- detritussame Latin “rub away” root
- detrimentallythe adverb: in a harmful way
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。
detrimentaladj/ˌdɛtɹɪˈmɛntəl/
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Causing damage or harm.
- Smoking tobacco can be detrimental to your health.
- "The fact is," continued he, "Lady Anne fears that my visits here may prove detrimental to what she considers your best interests. I thought myself an old, safe friend; but, as that cannot be explained to every body, she fears that I may keep off other and more eligible lovers."
detrimentalnoun/ˌdɛtɹɪˈmɛntəl/
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Anything harmful.
- The definition of a parasite is a microbe that lives in you or on you to its benefit and to your detriment. In other words, the detrimentals suck the life out of you.
- I'm afraid it may be the detrimentals, the poets, and æsthetes, and impressionist painters, who will rave about her.
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。