| 释义 |
injured, ppl. a.|ˈɪndʒəd|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Wronged. Also, Showing a sense of wrong, offended. Esp. in phr. injured innocence, the offended attitude of one who is undeservedly accused of something; freq. with the implication that the accusation is in fact just; also occas. used to designate a person adopting such an attitude.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 68 Injured King æta, undone by his subtle Daughter Medæa. 1667Milton P.L. v. 450 Jealousie.. the injur'd Lovers Hell. 1709Pope Ess. Crit. 693 Erasmus, that great injur'd name, (The glory of the Priesthood and the shame!). 1713Addison Cato iii. 36 Lucia, thou injur'd Innocence! 1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park i, Mrs. Price, in her turn, was injured and angry. 1827M. Wilmot Jrnl. 3 July in More Lett. (1935) 268 She next told us of an act of her benevolence towards a poacher caught in the fact, and perhaps too severely punished... Our Chezy dreadnought..speaks of him as injured Innocence. 1846G. A. Lundie Miss. Life Samoa xxx. 229 The injured wife of the transgressing teacher was a native. 1869Trollope Phineas Finn I. xvi. 132 Phineas assumed a look of injured innocence, as though his father was driving him too hard. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton iv, ‘But it rains!’ said Tita to him, in an injured way. c1900H. A. Jones in M. R. Booth Eng. Plays of 19th Cent. (1969) II. 364, I decline to give a certificate of injured innocence to any young person who misses her last train. 1971J. D. MacDonald Seven (1974) v. 101, I have watched the same game a lot of other times... Just don't give me injured innocence.
2. Hurt, damaged, impaired.
1857H. H. Wilson tr. Rig-veda III. 89 The injured cauldron, leaking, scatters foam. 1899Daily News 20 Dec. 3/4 The official list of killed and injured is as follows. Mod. Carrying his injured arm in a sling. The rest of the injured passengers are progressing favourably.
Hence ˈinjuredly adv., in an injured or offended manner.
1886‘L. Keith’ (Miss Johnston) Chilcotes III. vi. 111 ‘You're as goading as William Prior’, said Stephen injuredly. |