核心畫面
You can picture injure as damage done to a body: a fall, a crash, a fight, and afterwards some part of the person no longer works the way it did — a twisted knee, a cut arm, a back that will not bend. It is the verb news reports use ("three people were injured"), and it points at the damage itself rather than at the pain of it.
可以想成:身體被弄壞了。跌倒、車禍、打架之後,人身上某個部位不再像原本那樣運作——膝蓋扭了、手臂割破了、腰彎不下去。…更多收起
可以想成:身體被弄壞了。跌倒、車禍、打架之後,人身上某個部位不再像原本那樣運作——膝蓋扭了、手臂割破了、腰彎不下去。新聞裡 three people were injured 用的就是這個字;它指的重點是「損傷」本身,而不是當下有多痛。從這個畫面往外走一步,同樣的「弄壞」也可以落在看不見的東西上。原始詞典資料3 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。
injureverb/ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ/
- 1
To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
- The rugby team's star player got injured in a violent collision.
- I injured my ankle playing tennis.
- 2
To damage or impair.
- 3
To do injustice to.
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。