2002.09.03
Thanks for joining us again. Yesterday we introduced the words accident and disaster. Today we talk about why these are such terrible things when they occur.
- To damage something is to do physical harm to it, making it less useful or valuable.
To injure a person or animal is to cause damage to its body.
To kill a living thing is to cause it to die.
Be careful:
The word injure is only used to talk about living things. Use damage for objects, plants, and (sometimes) to talk about injury to SPECIFIC PARTS of a person's or animal's body. - damage は、何かの機能を低下させたり、価値を損なわせたりするような害を加える、つまり、損害を与えるという意味です。
injure は、人や動物の体に損害を与える、つまり、けがをさせるという意味です。
kill は、生き物を死に至らしめる、つまり、殺すという意味です。
注意:
injure という言葉は、生き物についてのみ使います。 damage は、物体、植物について、また、人間や動物の体の一部が傷つけられる場合に使われます。
- The hurricane damaged hundreds of buildings and has left thousands of people homeless.
- Too much sun can damage your skin.
- Although the car was badly damaged, fortunately none of the passengers were injured.
- a: How did you injure your hand?
b: It got caught in a machine I was using at the factory. - (news report)
The worst train disaster in 17 years occurred last night in Southern Italy. Altogether 22 people were killed and 145 injured, many seriously. - Heart disease kills thousands of people every year.
Take care.