Word · CEFR B2 · Frequency #3189
harm
身体伤害；损伤
physical injury or damage
- 1.
Physical injury; hurt; damage.
身体伤害；损伤；损害。
- 2.
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
由暴力、事故或骨折等造成的身体损伤
- 3.
Emotional or figurative hurt.
情感或比喻性的伤害。
- 4.
the occurrence of a change for the worse
情况变坏的发生
- 5.
Detriment; misfortune.
损害；不幸。
- 6.
the act of damaging something or someone
损害某物或某人的行为
- 7.
That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
造成伤害、损坏或损失的事物。
精神伤害；情感伤害；损害；不利；不幸；伤害行为；加害；祸根；致害物；身体伤害；损伤；损害。
In use
Pollution can cause serious harm to the environment.
The storm did a lot of harm to the crops.
He meant no harm by his comment.
do harm to sb/sth
常用于强调有害行为的结果。
Smoking does great harm to your health.
吸烟对你的健康造成很大伤害。
cause harm
The storm caused no harm to the building.
暴风雨没有对建筑物造成损害。
harm sb/sth
及物动词，直接跟宾语。
The chemicals may harm the environment.
这些化学品可能危害环境。
Connections
Collocations
- cause harm
- 造成伤害
- The chemicals can cause harm to the environment.这些化学物质会对环境造成伤害。
- do harm
- 造成伤害
- Smoking does harm to your health.吸烟对你的健康造成伤害。
- mean harm
- 恶意
- I didn't mean any harm; I was just joking.我没有恶意，只是开个玩笑。
- no harm
- 无害
- There's no harm in asking.问问也无妨。
- physical harm
- 身体伤害
- The victim suffered physical harm from the attack.受害者因袭击遭受了身体伤害。
- serious harm
- 严重伤害
Learner notes
Memory Tip
harm中的arm（手臂）受伤，意为伤害。
Context & Register
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Grammar Note
不可数名词
Pronunciation & Spelling
The words arm, farm, charm, and alarm rhyme with harm (all have /ɑːrm/ in standard American English). Words like warm and swarm look similar but have a different vowel (/ɔːrm/).
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 3，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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