核心畫面
You can picture harm as the damage or hurt one thing does to another — a scratch on a body, a wound to a reputation, a dent in something that was whole. It is the bad effect left behind when one thing acts on another.
可以想成 harm 是一方對另一方造成的「傷害、損壞」——身上多了一道傷、名聲被劃了一刀、好端端的東西被弄壞了。它指…更多收起
可以想成 harm 是一方對另一方造成的「傷害、損壞」——身上多了一道傷、名聲被劃了一刀、好端端的東西被弄壞了。它指的是「一個東西作用在另一個東西上之後,留下來的那個壞結果」。名詞講的是這個傷害本身,動詞講的是「去造成這個傷害」的動作。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。
harmnoun/hɑːm/
- 1
Physical injury; hurt; damage.
- No harm came to my possessions.
- You can do a lot of harm to someone if you kick them in the teeth.
- 2
Emotional or figurative hurt.
- Although not physically injured in the car accident, she received some psychological harm.
- And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.
- 3
Detriment; misfortune.
- I wish him no harm.
- 4
That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
- We, ignorant of ourselves, / Beg often our own harms.
harmverb/hɑːm/
- 1
To damage, hurt, or injure something, usually an inanimate object.
- Will justice and conscience of society not be harmed if people avoid the truth?
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。