1. 1毫髮無傷、平安無事、沒有受傷。中文常說「安然無恙」,語感很接近;新聞裡「獲救時毫髮無傷」就是這個字。

    Unharmed means not hurt, not , not damaged — used about someone or something that came through a dangerous situation with nothing wrong. The important thing is that unharmed almost always needs danger nearby. You would not look at a healthy friend walking down the street and say "he is unharmed". You say it about the passengers after a crash, the hostages after a rescue, the house after a fire, the paintings after a flood. The word quietly implies that something bad happened and this person or thing escaped it. That is why it lives so naturally in news reports: "All four crew members were rescued unharmed." it is flexible. It sits after the verb be — they were unharmed — and it also works as a kind of extra comment tagged onto a sentence: she walked away unharmed; the child was found unharmed. It very rarely comes before a noun; "an unharmed child" is possible but sounds odd, and native speakers would usually say "the child was unharmed". You will also hear the fixed pair safe and unharmed, which is a little repetitive but extremely common in reporting, and physically unharmed, which is doing something specific and rather sad — it means the body is fine, and gently suggests the mind may not be.

組成un- ("not") + harmed (the past participle of harm). The prefix un- is one of the oldest pieces of English, going all the way back through Old English un- to a Proto-Indo-European negative root — the same ancient source that gives us the not-idea in many European languages.

同家族的字

  • harmThe base word — hurt or damage. Unharmed is simply its past participle with not attached.
  • harmfulSame base, opposite direction: harmful causes the damage, unharmed received none.
  • harmlessSame base again, but note the difference in meaning — harmless means unable to cause harm, while unharmed means it did not receive harm. The suffix decides which side you are on.
  • unhurtBuilt exactly the same way, un- + a past participle, and means almost the same thing.

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。

unharmedadj

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    Which has not suffered harm; which has not been injured or damaged.

    • The oldest Weaver girls, Sara, 16, and Rachel, 10, were unharmed, as was their infant sister, Elisheba, whom Vicki had been holding when a sniper’s bullet crashed into her head.
    • A dozen rams as well as other livestock animals that were housed in a different part of the farm were unharmed by the fire.

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