词汇 | self-inflicted |
释义 | self-inflicted adjective uk /ˌself.ɪnˈflɪk.tɪd/ us /ˌself.ɪnˈflɪk.tɪd/ If an injury or a problem is self-inflicted, you have caused it yourself: 施加于自身的 self-inflicted pain/damage自己酿成的痛苦/伤害 Freedom to act (as) free as a birdidiom agency at willidiom autonomist autonomous free hand free pass free reinidiom free spirit free-form no holds barredidiom non-autonomous non-didactic non-directed non-restricted the world is someone's oysteridiom walk walk freeidiom wiggle room wriggle room self-inflicted | American Dictionaryself-inflicted adjective[ not gradable ] us/ˌself·ɪnˈflɪk·təd/ (of something bad) done to yourself: a self-inflicted wound Examples of self-inflictedself-inflicted Whether self-inflicted or caused by others, physical pain was a way of affirming the boundaries of identity. Some of the wounds may have been self-inflicted. A fifth, self-inflicted injuries, is usually a consequence of mental illness. The 1990 worldwide incidence of self-inflicted injuries or those due to violent actions (excluding war) toward others was 225.4 per 100,000. Costs consist of self-inflicted damages plus compensation paid, minus compensation received. Here the ' punishment ' is in a sense self-inflicted. Monastic self-inflicted pain has nothing to do with it. He writes mostly with amused detachment, sustaining a gently ironic tone until brought up short by the harsh reality of self-inflicted death. Self-injury is defined as any injury which has been deliberately self-inflicted. Its only casualty was self-inflicted. The resources of society are being wasted because of the self-inflicted, society-dependent resistance against individual intentions to help, and because helpful social action is not being properly realized. In the year 2001 there were a total of six self-inflicted deaths by women. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One of his greatest tricks of bamboozlement is the art he has devised of self-inflicted starvation just up to the point of dying. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Both those strikes were nails in the coffin of what appears to be an industry dying from self-inflicted wounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The worst aspect of the whole saga is that it has been almost entirely self-inflicted. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of self-inflicted These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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