单词 | hurt |
释义 | hurt I. transitive verb 1. a. < the hot sand hurts my feet > < was badly hurt in the wreck > < got hurt in a bombing raid > b. < the submarine is hurt by heavy depth charges > < the walkout is not hurting service as much as the strikers hoped > c. < the story is hurt but not ruined by too many long descriptive passages > 2. a. < disillusions of the mind hurt less than disillusions of the heart — W.L.Sullivan > < was hurt by their lack of confidence in him > < it hurts me to think of all that land wasted — Ellen Glasgow > b. < the charges of graft will hurt his chances in the fall election > < a good wife can't help a husband as much as a bad wife can hurt one — W.H.Whyte > intransitive verb 1. a. < her hand … hurt from lugging the suitcase — John Dos Passos > < knocked a young heifer in the head because he … figured she had hurt long enough — Caroline Miller > < atomic-energy programs are hurting from lack of enough scientific help — Newsweek > b. chiefly Midland 2. < hit the aggressor … where it will hurt most — D.H.McLachlan > < essential needs abroad must be met even if it hurts at home — J.S.Carson > < the rain may hold off but it won't hurt to take your umbrella > Synonyms: see injure II. 1. < the superiority … of the United States was a hurt to British prestige — Bernard Brodie > < this tower of granite, weathering the hurts of so many ages — R.W.Emerson > 2. a. < rattleweed, made into a tincture, is better than arnica for hurts of every sort — Emily Holt > b. < are apt to be exasperated, and say things in immediate hurt which a little later they realize they do not wholly mean — A.E.Sutherland > < her sympathy eased his hurt > 3. < his soul-stuff, by working on which a sorcerer may do the man himself grievous hurt — J.G.Frazer > < subordinating cosmic to moral considerations, to the hurt of both — M.R.Cohen > Synonyms: see injury III. 1. < ambulances … quickly dispose of hurt men and women — J.C.Powys > < an air of hurt innocence > < hoped to avoid hurt feelings over rejection of the plan > 2. < hurt book sale > < restore hurt land with woods, game cover, and water — Russell Lord > IV. also heurt or heurte heraldry |
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