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[N-COUNT 可数名词](思想或感情上的)伤害,创伤 A
wound is a lasting bad effect on someone's mind or feelings caused by a very upsetting experience.
She has been so deeply hurt it may take forever for the wounds to heal.
她内心受伤太深,也许再也无法愈合。
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[VERB 动词](在感情上)伤害,使受创伤 If you
are wounded by what someone says or does, your feelings are deeply hurt.
He was deeply wounded by the treachery of close aides...
他被亲密助手的背叛深深地伤害了。
My children have wounded me in the past.
我的孩子们过去曾伤害过我。
woundedI think she feels desperately wounded and unloved.
我想她觉得受到了莫大的伤害,无人爱她。
Usage Note :
Note that when someone is hurt accidentally, for example, in a car crash or when they are playing sport, you do not use the word wound. You use injure and injury instead. A man and his baby were injured in the explosion... Many of the deaths that occur in cycling are due to head injuries. In more formal English, injury can also be an uncount noun. Two teenagers escaped serious injury when their car rolled down an embankment. Wound is normally restricted to soldiers who are injured in battle, or to deliberate acts of violence against a particular person. ...stab wounds.
注意,表示某人受到意外伤害,如路遇车祸或进行体育运动时受伤,不能用 wound, 而要用 injure 或 injury:A man and his baby were injured in the explosion (一名男子和他的小孩在爆炸中受伤),Many of the deaths that occur in cycling are due to head injuries (骑自行车时发生的死亡事故很多都是由于头部受伤所致)。在较为正式的英语中,injury 也可作不可数名词:Two teenagers escaped serious injury when their car rolled down an embankment (两个少年在汽车滚下堤岸后侥幸没有受重伤)。wound 通常仅限于指士兵在战场上受伤,或指因蓄意实施的暴力行为而受伤:stab wounds (刺伤)。
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[PHRASE 短语](失败或被羞辱后)舔伤,重整旗鼓 If you say that someone is
licking their
wounds, you mean that they are recovering after being defeated or made to feel ashamed or unhappy.
The British team was returning home yesterday to lick its wounds after defeat by India.
英国队负于印度队后,昨日回国休整。
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[PHRASE 短语]揭旧伤疤(指重提他人不愿提起的痛苦往事) Something that
opens old wounds or
reopens old wounds reminds someone about an upsetting experience in the past which they would prefer to forget.
Courts have been reluctant to reopen old wounds by trying crimes that are decades old.
法院不愿重揭旧伤疤,去审理几十年前的罪案。
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to
rub salt into the wound→see: salt
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