单词	detriment
释义	detrimentdet‧ri‧ment /ˈdetrəmənt/ noun [uncountable] formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINdetriment Origin: 1400-1500 Latin detrimentum, from deterere ‘to rub away’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS According to the report, district managers are obsessed with control and compliance to the detriment of student achievement. But a presumption of inevitable environmental detriment is premature. He said the annexation should be a benefit, not a detriment, to taxpayers. Hyperbole is a way of life in the culinary world, much to its detriment. The idea is to make as much money as possible from news departments, sometimes to the detriment of truth and journalism. This suggestion turned out to be greatly to my own detriment. Without doing so, we could miss vital factors of detriment both to water voles and other wetland wildlife. harm or damageto the detriment of something (=resulting in harm or damage to something) He worked very long hours, to the detriment of his marriage.
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