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单词 harm
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harm
(hɑːʳm )
Word forms: harms , harming , harmed
1. verb B2
To harm a person or animal means to cause them physical injury, usually on purpose.
The hijackers seemed anxious not to harm anyone. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: injure, hurt, wound, abuse  
2. uncountable noun B2
Harm is physical injury to a person or an animal which is usually caused on purpose.
All dogs are capable of doing harm to human beings. [+ to]
3. verb B2
To harm a thing, or sometimes a person, means to damage them or make them less effective or successful than they were.
...a warning that the product may harm the environment. [VERB noun]
Low-priced imports will harm the industry. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: damage, hurt, ruin, mar  
4. uncountable noun B2
Harm is the damage to something which is caused by a particular course of action.
The abuse of your powers does harm to all other officers who do their job properly.
To cut taxes would probably do the economy more harm than good.
Synonyms: damage, loss, ill, hurt  
5. sb will come to no harm/no harm will come to sb phrase B2
If you say that someone or something will come to no harm or that no harm will come to them, you mean that they will not be hurt or damaged in any way.
There is always a lifeguard to ensure that no one comes to any harm.
'Go back and make sure that no harm comes to him,' he said quietly.
6. do no/little harm; no harm in doing phrase
If you say it does no harm to do something or there is no harm in doing something, you mean that it might be worth doing, and you will not be blamed for doing it.
They are not always willing to take on untrained workers, but there's no harm in asking.
7. do no harm/do sb no harm phrase [VERB inflects]
If you say that something would do no harm, or do someone no harm, you are recommending a course of action which you think is worthwhile, helpful, or useful.
It would do her no harm to try them until we found the one which suited her best.
8. no harm done phrase
If you say that there is no harm done, you are telling someone not to worry about something that has happened because it has not caused any serious injury or damage.
There, now, you're all right. No harm done.
9. in harm's way phrase
If someone is put in harm's way, they are caused to be in a dangerous situation.
These men were never told how they'd been put in harm's way.
They could be in harm's way if military action becomes necessary.
10. out of harm's way phrase
If someone or something is out of harm's way, they are in a safe place away from danger or from the possibility of being damaged.
It is an easy way of keeping children entertained, or simply out of harm's way.
Workers scrambled to carry priceless objects out of harm's way.
Collocations:
considerable harm
His office said that it 'would cause considerable harm to the countryside ... and also result in increased climate change emissions'.
Times, Sunday Times
Analysts said that they had done the bank's reputation considerable harm.
Times, Sunday Times
It said that the grey slate cart lodge would cause 'considerable harm' and 'present a creeping domestication' to the surrounding area.
Times, Sunday Times
Even if she agreed to you indulging your fantasy with this visit, she would do so out of love for you but at considerable harm to herself.
Times, Sunday Times
Pesticides and herbicides that help them grow bigger and better have wreaked considerable harm on many birds and insects, to our great loss in other ways.
The Times Literary Supplement
emotional harm
To protect yourself from emotional harm and physical danger you need to follow sensible rules.
The Sun
There are important rules to follow to protect yourself from emotional harm and physical danger.
The Sun
They will deal swiftly with any pupil who inflicts physical or emotional harm on another.
Times, Sunday Times
While keen to protect themselves from the emotional harm that may result from a relationship breakdown, today's couples are just as concerned with protecting themselves from financial risk.
Times, Sunday Times
There was never any intent of physical or emotional harm.
Times, Sunday Times
environmental harm
His sermon subjects included environmental harm, then a little-known issue.
Times,Sunday Times
Such a law could make company bosses and government ministers responsible for funding, permitting or causing severe environmental harm.
Times,Sunday Times
He's right to listen to opponents who warn that fracking, as it's called, could cause environmental harm.
The Sun
It described the mine as a 'once in a lifetime opportunity', declaring that its economic impact 'outweighed the environmental harm'.
Times, Sunday Times
That left an area of judgment for the competent authority, balancing the severity of any potential environmental harm against the probability of it occurring.
Times, Sunday Times
evidence of harm
None found any evidence of harm either to humans or the environment.
Times, Sunday Times
They call for more evidence of harm - though they are the ones funding much of the research and shaping it to their liking.
Times, Sunday Times
We have no evidence of benefit and significant evidence of harm.
Times, Sunday Times
However, there was no evidence of harm to patients as a result of the breaches.
Times, Sunday Times
The pace of change and the evidence of harm have increased markedly over the last five years.
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further harm
Sharing your pain with others often results in even more pain since those who disagree may inflict further harm.
Christianity Today
But golf, as much as she loved the game, caused her further harm.
Times,Sunday Times
Your prestige and reputation were directly touted in his attempts to engage in further harm.
Times,Sunday Times
This delays prosecutions and, according to lawyers, risks further harm to the public.
Times,Sunday Times
I need help to save myself from feeling like this and to prevent myself from further harm.
The Sun
harm a patient
They are carefully designed so that no single cause of failure can harm the patient.
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The fillers themselves carry a small but real risk of harming the patient.
Times, Sunday Times
Revealing that new name would 'harm the patient's health and wellbeing', the judges ruled.
The Sun
harm a plant
The effects of urban development may harm the plant.
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Care must be taken not to harm the plant either with cold air entering through the window, or with high radiated heat from direct exposure to the sun.
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Although unsightly, it will not harm your plants.
The Sun
Although unsightly, it will not harm your plants as it draws all its water and nutrients from the atmosphere.
The Sun
Although unsightly, they will not harm the plants and no control measures are necessary.
Times, Sunday Times
harm a reputation
He kept putting me off doing anything that could harm his reputation.
The Sun
Accidental breaches, which have the potential to expose client information and harm the reputation and coffers of firms, have continued to occur.
Times,Sunday Times
It will only harm the reputation of hard-working police officers.
Times,Sunday Times
Yet this did not harm his reputation as a worker of wonders and of miracle cures.
Times, Sunday Times
Something like this could really harm his reputation.
The Sun
harm competition
Its 810 staff perform functions from investigating mergers that could harm competition to studying markets to examine if there are consumer problems.
Times,Sunday Times
Only if it can be shown not to harm competition will the deal be worth it.
Times, Sunday Times
The committee said that it was urging the government not to implement the recommendation, which it argued 'could undermine consumer trust and disadvantage smaller suppliers harming competition'.
Times, Sunday Times
harm health
But levels were 'very unlikely' to harm health.
The Sun
Tanning salons, empty shops and payday lenders can also harm health while cafes, libraries and leisure centres help.
The Sun
Here she reveals how to get your brood to interact with you, not just their devices - and we explain how too much time on their gadgets can harm health.
The Sun
harm physically
Even if you come to no harm physically, there can be deep emotional damage which affects future relationships.
The Sun
As these techniques are said to be highly effective, when not practiced properly, the practitioner can be harmed physically and mentally.
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Her immortality also means that she can not be permanently harmed physically and heals almost immediately.
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harm reduction
We need services that offer opportunities for both harm reduction and abstinence on a continuum, with experts who guide people through the process safely.
Times, Sunday Times
Harm reduction means offering safer alternatives, as the lesser of two evils.
Times, Sunday Times
The custom of the 'designated driver' and the provision of 'free rides home' by some bars are examples of harm reduction.
Times, Sunday Times
They covered issues such as weight loss, alcohol harm reduction, stopping smoking and long-term condition self-care.
Times, Sunday Times
Harm reduction has become a pharmaceutical monster.
Times, Sunday Times
harm the economy
The rules, they argue, would harm the economy.
Houston Chronicle
Take one supposed rule: that higher taxes can harm the economy.
Times,Sunday Times
Their joint endeavor would harm the economy, he will say.
Times, Sunday Times
Only 23% thought it would harm the economy.
Times, Sunday Times
However, businesses expressed fears that the plans could harm the economy.
Times, Sunday Times
harm the interests of
This short-sighted decision will harm the interests of patients and undermine the improvement initiatives that the national clinical director has led and coordinated.
Times, Sunday Times
So why do shareholders appear supine on audits, even when failures harm their interests?
Times, Sunday Times
An individual may prosper from activities which harm the interests of a nation.
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Such tenure was not only perpetual, but also heritable and alienable (although nothing could be done that would harm the interests of the land owner).
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Their provisional findings are that the purchase has reduced competition and may potentially harm the interests of passengers.
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immediate harm
So she returned, threw herself into her music and lived with a brain tumour that seemed to be doing her no immediate harm.
Times,Sunday Times
When things are wrong there are certain necessary actions: safeguard life, reduce immediate harm, put the tiles back.
Times, Sunday Times
They will be enraged he refused to bin the toxic 'backstop', now poised to cause far more hideous and immediate harm than any theoretical future hard border.
The Sun
No immediate harm done, then.
Times, Sunday Times
He suggested using photographs of lungs blackened by air pollution to show that burning fossil fuels caused immediate harm to health as well as long-term damage to the planet.
Times,Sunday Times
inflict harm
There are plenty of others who are out to do us harm, just as we occasionally inflict harm on them.
The Times Literary Supplement
Pattern spells create insubstantial images which affect the minds of the viewers, and can inflict harm.
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The product of this morality, the autonomous individual, comes to see that he may inflict harm on those who break their promises to him.
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One must be morally -- and criminally -- responsible to act according to his or her capacities not to inflict harm, even unintentional harm.
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Instead, they questioned whether the witch intended to inflict harm or not.
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irreparable harm
You need support and understanding to quit before you do yourself irreparable harm.
The Sun (2012)
Of course it should devise the most painful sanctions that it can without doing its collective economy irreparable harm.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Instead it risks doing irreparable harm.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
lasting harm
His doctor has told him the sucker will not have caused any lasting harm.
The Sun
It causes no lasting harm and may result from being sleep-deprived, so be sure to get enough shut-eye.
The Sun
He cannot remember how he got the injuries but docs say there will be no lasting harm.
The Sun
Social stigma seems the only lasting harm.
The Times Literary Supplement
That could do them lasting harm.
The Sun
long-term harm
However, we must all consider the long-term harm that would follow.
Times, Sunday Times
If they don't, housing will do long-term harm to the economy and to the sum of human happiness.
Times, Sunday Times
There was sufficient material to raise a real doubt in as to long-term harm in some cases.
Times, Sunday Times
Clearly the taunting did his popularity no long-term harm.
Times,Sunday Times
But it only lasts an hour or so and doesn't seem to cause any long-term harm.
The Sun
mean harm
It is not good enough for managers to say that the player did not mean harm.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Hurt doesn't mean harm when it comes to the back.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Against these thousands of loyal citizens, how many real traitors who meant harm to their country were really uncovered?
Grenville, J. A. S. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century (1994)
permanent harm
Fortunately they do no permanent harm to the trees.
Times, Sunday Times
Some discount websites that promise a gleaming smile through teeth whitening sessions could put customers at risk of permanent harm, dentists warned yesterday.
Times, Sunday Times
A bit of sniggering by the water cooler when you arrive in the neck brace but no permanent harm done.
Times, Sunday Times
People accepted the notion that a targeted group might turn itself in and be detained during a crisis, with a reasonable expectation to one day be released without permanent harm.
Smithsonian Mag
The group said it had a strong safety record and that in 2015-16 just 0.05% of reported incidents had resulted in permanent harm.
Times, Sunday Times
physical harm
The absence of struggle or physical harm may suggest that the incident was routine.
Times,Sunday Times
Furthermore, he only considers physical harm, not harm to the mind, the character, memory, motivation, ability to concentrate, empathise, love and so on.
Times, Sunday Times
In untrained hands, cosmetic procedures like dermal fillers can change the way you look forever and cause serious physical harm.
The Sun
So if someone later suggests getting a pizza instead, you want to do them actual physical harm.
Times, Sunday Times
The physical harm includes problems with sensitivity - either they have no sensitivity or too much 'bad' sensitivity.
Times, Sunday Times
prevent harm
This newspaper generally favours government doing too little rather than too much, but there are cases when it can use its power to prevent harm.
Times, Sunday Times
However, unlike social media platforms, broadcasters and internet service providers are subject to regulatory frameworks that set standards and prevent harm to consumers and society.
Times,Sunday Times
They do it to prevent harm to their neighbors.
Christianity Today
This would mean that developers would be obliged to take steps to prevent harm to hedgehogs on their sites, including by moving them to alternative locations.
Times,Sunday Times
The charge was introduced to prevent harm to wildlife and reduce litter.
Times, Sunday Times
psychological harm
Psychological harm would often shade into, or overlap with, a diagnosed psychiatric injury or illness, such as depression; but that need not always be so.
Times, Sunday Times
It said that if 'they are subjected to physical or psychological harm, [we are] prepared to take all necessary legal action'.
Times, Sunday Times
There was severe psychological harm done.
The Sun
real harm
You could do real harm if you go marching in.
The Sun
It wasn't your fault and no real harm was done, except to your pride.
The Sun
You can't turn back the clock but, luckily, no real harm has been done.
The Sun
No real harm has been done, so just try to forget it — but don't drink too much in the future.
The Sun
Sooner or later those two will do real harm.
Times, Sunday Times
reduce harm
In this way, the proposals are an effective way to reduce harm among vulnerable groups.
Times, Sunday Times
First, it would reduce harm through ensuring that users knew what they were taking and how to take it.
Times, Sunday Times
This helps the environment in many ways; helps with driving visibility, decrease health problems caused by dust, and reduce harm done to crops.
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We should reject the punitive approach and focus on reducing harm.
Times, Sunday Times
Experimental criminology consists principally of randomized controlled field trials to develop and test theoretically coherent ideas about reducing harm from crime.
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risk of harm
She added people at risk of harm have the right to know of 'relevant information in the possession of the state'.
The Sun
It means prisoners who were potentially a 'high risk of harm' to the public are being let out.
The Sun
The risk of harm, and the weight to be attached to it, might vary from case to case.
Times, Sunday Times
Self-employed work which involves no risk of harm to others will be exempt from health and safety rules.
The Sun
Also, trees that pose an unreasonable risk of harm to property must be removed.
Houston Chronicle
serious harm
The new threshold requirement of serious harm is clearly helpful and the courts have now provided some clarity about what this means.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The Bill is designed to give publications more protection from libel actions including requiring claimants to show that they have suffered serious harm.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Somebody could come to serious harm and anyone doing it could suffer very serious health side-effects.
The Sun (2016)
But the odds of more returning reservists taking their own lives or inflicting serious harm on themselves or others are high.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The new law protected journalists by imposing on claimants the burden to show that the alleged libel actually caused them'serious harm '.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
severe harm
A total of 1,856 incidents causing death were reported and 3,643 incidents caused severe harm.
Times, Sunday Times
Of these, 6,558 resulted in severe harm, 40,665 moderate harm.
Times, Sunday Times
It also areas where ' branch shedding whole tree failure could potentially severe harm or loss of life'.
Times, Sunday Times
The electoral reform he ushered in was credited with undermining national political processes and causing severe harm to the system of parliamentary government.
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It also may bite or scratch, but has not been known to cause any severe harm.
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significant harm
The festival organisers dispute this, but accept that significant harm was caused.
Times, Sunday Times
Although they were initally thought to be hoaxes, police said they were 'designed to cause significant harm'.
Times, Sunday Times
Certificates will be required for bankers who could pose 'significant harm' to their company or customers if they act wrongly.
Times, Sunday Times
A further seven came to significant harm due to staff confusion about the term 'soft diet', which involves pureed or liquidised meals.
The Sun
They said that the trial would not cause significant harm and that it was their only remaining hope.
Times, Sunday Times
substantial harm
This allowed applicants to claim their proposals might cause harm but it was actually 'less than substantial harm' and therefore on balance acceptable.
Times, Sunday Times
Pickles has made it more difficult for promoters of unsuitable schemes to claim they must be accepted because they cause less than substantial harm.
Times, Sunday Times
He was also concerned that offences had 'caused substantial harm to the integrity of the market'.
Times, Sunday Times
They can do substantial harm to an organizations systems and place its data at risk.
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If such pressure waves enter a shelter, they will likely do substantial harm to occupants and equipment.
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threat of harm
Short of an imminent threat of harm to persons or substantial damage to property, members of the public should not be encouraged to reprimand law-breaking citizens.
Times, Sunday Times
Several sections were written under imminent threat of harm.
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This means a command, for something other than money by the court, such as restraining the continuance or threat of harm.
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Guidance to police officers tells them that 'threats of harm of a spiritual nature' could amount to a criminal offence.
Times, Sunday Times
The victim also contacted officers last week after receiving threats of harm if she told anybody what had happened.
Times, Sunday Times
wish harm
His closest friend was his sister, who described him as the perfect brother and a 'scrupulous risk-assessor' on whom no one would wish harm.
Times, Sunday Times
You never wish harm on another player.
Houston Chronicle
Also, there occurs a purification of the personality, where the magician should become incapable of wishing harm to his fellow man.
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Translations:
Chinese: 伤害, 伤害故意的
Japanese: 害する, 危害
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