核心畫面

Picture a soldier being carried off a battlefield: something sharp went into the body and left an opening that is still there. That is the difference between `wounded` and `hurt` or `` — a wound is a break in the skin, made by something that cut or pierced, usually by another person on purpose. The word keeps both halves of that picture wherever it goes: the opening, and the fact that someone made it.

可以想成一個士兵被抬離戰場:有尖銳的東西進到身體裡,留下一個到現在還沒合起來的傷口。這正是 wounded 跟 hu更多收起可以想成一個士兵被抬離戰場:有尖銳的東西進到身體裡,留下一個到現在還沒合起來的傷口。這正是 wounded 跟 hurt、injured 的差別——wound 指的是皮膚被劃開、被刺穿的那種傷,通常是別人故意造成的;injured 比較像意外受傷(車禍、運動),hurt 最口語也最廣。這個字走到哪裡都帶著畫面的兩半:那個裂口,以及「是有人弄的」這件事。

Two branches

身上被武器劃開的傷

字面的那一層,也是另外兩層的出發點。這一組裡有「受傷的人」這個描述,也有把這些人整批指稱出來的用法。

hurt by a weapon · adjective · B1

Hurt in the body by a weapon such as a gun, knife, or arrow.

受傷的

心裡被話劃開的傷

把武器換成一句話,其他都不變:一樣是被別人弄出來的、一樣有個裂口、一樣不會馬上好。中文說「傷人」用的也是同一個比喻,所以這一層對中文使用者幾乎不用轉換。

emotionally hurt · adjective · B2

Feeling very upset or hurt inside because of something someone said or did.

心受傷的

原始詞典資料4 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。

woundedadj/ˈwuːndɪd/

  • 1

    Suffering from a wound, especially one acquired in battle from a weapon, such as a gun or a knife.

    • A wounded soldier.
    • The wounded lay on stretchers waiting for surgery.
  • 2

    Suffering from an emotional injury.

    • My wounded pride never recovered from her rejection.
  • 3

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsOf a particle: having undergone an inelastic collision.

    • a wounded nucleon

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。