喜樂美語
  1. 1沒有受傷的、毫髮無傷的

    Not — with no wound, no broken bone, no physical damage, especially after something dangerous has happened. A car crash, a fall, a fire, an attack: the news says the driver escaped unhurt, the children were found unhurt.

    Notice where the word lives. You almost never say 'an unhurt man'; you say someone WAS unhurt, escaped unhurt, walked away unhurt, emerged unhurt. It sits after the verb, and it nearly always follows an event that could easily have somebody. That is why it feels like news-report English: it is the word for reporting the good outcome of a bad moment.

    It is the plain everyday partner of the more formal 'uninjured' and the more official 'unharmed'. All three overlap, but 'unharmed' also covers things (the paintings were unharmed by the flood) and can mean 'not damaged in any way', while 'unhurt' is really about bodies.

    One small thing worth knowing: because the verb 'hurt' also covers feelings, you may occasionally see 'unhurt' used about emotions — 'she seemed strangely unhurt by his words'. It is understood, but the physical meaning is what people expect.

組成un- (not) + hurt (受傷的). It comes to us from Middle English unhert / unhurt — the same two pieces, already joined hundreds of years ago.

同家族的字

  • hurtthe word it negates — verb, adjective and noun all in one
  • unharmedsame un-, close meaning; unharmed also works for objects and property
  • unhappysame un- meaning plain 'not' in front of an adjective

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。

unhurtadj

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    Not hurt; unharmed or unscathed

    • The 0812 Huddersfield-Sheffield service struck the stabiliser leg of a lorry being used to take away portable toilets after local repair work. [...] The train crew and 25 passengers were unhurt.

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