Concetti Chiave
- An ache is a dull, continuous pain, often experienced as headaches or backaches, and can also refer to emotional longing or heartache.
- Examples of aching include physical soreness from activities or emotional heartache from a breakup.
- Hurt refers to causing injury, which can be physical, emotional, or situational, with hurtful words causing emotional pain.
- Common expressions include "he wouldn't hurt a flea" to describe a gentle person and "what you don't know won't hurt you" to emphasize ignorance as bliss.
- Examples of hurt include accidental physical injuries and emotional pain from harsh criticism.
Ache
An ache is a dull pain, and to have a dull, continuous pain is to ache. The most common complaints are headaches and backaches.
Ex: Every muscle in my body ached after I raked the leaves off my lawn last weekend. I'm tempted to cut down all of the maple trees.
Ex: Linda suffers from migraine headaches. The pain is so severe that she gets sick, and her sensitivity to light forces her to close the curtains and lie in the dark.
Someone who has ended a romance may have caused the other person to experience heartache, which is great sadness after a breakup. To ache also can mean to yearn for or desire something.
Ex: Billy Ray Cyrus, father of Miley Cyrus, recorded "Achy Breaky Heart" in 1992, and it may have been the most popular song of the year because everyone has experienced heartache.
Ex: I ache for the days when life was simpler. Now my time is filled with so many obligations like my job, housework and driving the kids to their activities that I have no time left just for me.
Hurt
If you hurt someone or yourself, you have caused some kind of injury, and the injury can be physical, emotional, or situational. The adjective, hurtful, most often refers to words or actions that cause you emotional pain.
Ex: Although it was accidental, Jake's pushing me down the stairs hurt my leg, and I had a large bruise on my thigh the next day.
Ex: I know that my writing lacks polish, but I still found my teacher's remarks about my latest short story to be hurtful. I am reluctant to write another one.
He wouldn't hurt a flea or a fly means that he wouldn't hurt anyone. Another saying, what you don't know won't hurt you, means that if you are not aware of something harmful, you can't be hurt by it.
Ex: When Jack was on trial for assaulting a colleague, several people testified to his innocence. In fact, his boss claimed that Jack was so mild-mannered that he wouldn't hurt a fly.
Ex: I did not know that my father's flight from Chicago was in danger of a crash landing because the landing gear didn't work at first, so I wasn't worried. I guess it's true that what you don't know can't hurt you.
Domande da interrogazione
- ¿Qué significa "ache" y cómo se utiliza en diferentes contextos?
- ¿Cómo se describe el término "hurt" y en qué situaciones se aplica?
- ¿Qué expresiones comunes se mencionan en el texto relacionadas con "hurt"?
"Ache" se refiere a un dolor sordo y continuo. Se utiliza para describir dolores comunes como dolores de cabeza y de espalda. También puede expresar un anhelo o deseo por algo, como en el caso de "heartache" que es la tristeza tras una ruptura.
"Hurt" se refiere a causar una lesión que puede ser física, emocional o situacional. El adjetivo "hurtful" se usa para describir palabras o acciones que causan dolor emocional. También se utiliza en expresiones como "he wouldn't hurt a fly" para indicar que alguien es inofensivo.
El texto menciona expresiones como "he wouldn't hurt a fly" para describir a alguien que no haría daño a nadie, y "what you don't know won't hurt you" que sugiere que la ignorancia de algo dañino evita que te lastime.
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