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To maim someone is to hurt them so badly that a part of the body is gone, or never works well again — a hand, an eye, a leg. It is stronger than . A cut can heal; maiming stays with the person for the rest of their life. You meet it in news about war, bombs, and bad accidents, and in older stories. It is a serious, rather formal word; friends do not use it for a sports injury. Though actually, newspapers sometimes stretch it to any very bad wound, even when the person may recover, because the word carries shock. There is an old noun use too, but you will almost always see it as a verb.
使殘廢；重傷致殘。
組成From Middle English maymen, mahaymen, from Anglo-Norman maheimer, mahaigner, of Germanic origin. The same root gives us mayhem.
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- mayhemsame old Anglo-Norman root; mayhem began as the crime of maiming someone, and now more often means wild disorder
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。
maimverb/meɪm/
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To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.
- He was maimed by a bear.
- Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.
maimnoun/meɪm/
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obsoleteA severe, serious wound.
- it ſequeſtred me from the woonted meanes of my maintenance, which is as great a maime to any mans happineſſe as can bee feared from the hands of miſerie, or the deepe pit of diſpaire wherinto I was falne, beyond my greateſt friendes reach to recouer mee
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。