| 单词 | injury |
| 释义 | in·ju·ry I. 1. a. < take it as a personal injury — W.R.Inge > < his tone was one of mingled admiration and injury — R.H.Davis > < adding insult to injury > b. c. obsolete 2. < with consequent injury to morale and efficiency — Adam Yarmolinsky > < injuries to health > < without injury to the concrete — J.R.Dalzell > < suffered severe injuries in the accident > Synonyms: < sustain a leg injury in a fall > < mental or emotional upset is just as truly an injury to the body as a bone fracture, a burn, or a bacterial infection — G.W.Gray b. 1886 > < the fundamental skepticism … inflicts the most serious injury on both science and religion — W.R.Inge > < such change is … a great injury to the child's independence and freedom from responsibility — Abram Kardiner > hurt applies chiefly to physical injury but in any application it stresses pain or suffering whether injury is involved or not < a would-be fighter … that gross, brutal frame was still capable of doing a great deal of hurt — Hamilton Basso > < wrongfully withholding from him something which is his due … inflicting on him a positive hurt, either in the form of direct suffering, or of the privation of some good which he had reasonable ground, either of a physical or of a social kind, for counting upon — J.S.Mill > < leaving forever to the aggressor the choice of time and place and means to cause greatest hurt to us at least cost to himself — D.D.Eisenhower > < the dentist's drill may cause quite a hurt though it does no injury > damage applies to injury involving loss, as of property, value, or usefulness < the collision inflicted great damage on the car > < realize the immense damage his action has done to the good name of America — H.J.Laski > < enough damage to a watch so that it no longer keeps accurate time > harm applies to any evil that injures or may injure < the men were terrified of Yusuf's cruelty, and wanted to retreat out of harm's way — C.S.Forester > < a well-founded apprehension of bodily harm is sufficient to justify the taking of life — H.W.H.Knott > < a scandal may prove of great harm to a man's political career > mischief is used to avoid the suggestion or image of particular harm or injury, designating generally any misdoing or injury, especially irresponsible, and stressing the role of an agent, usually personal < the nearest policeman, who most likely won't turn up until the worst of the mischief is done — G.B.Shaw > < he was most violent; if Captain Downing had not been there to restrain him, I vow he'd have done me a mischief — Max Peacock > < a fence was defective, and the pigs straying did mischief to a trolley car — B.N.Cardozo > II. obsolete |
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