add insult to injury

英語

其他形式

• heap insult on injury

詞源

派生自公元前一世紀的菲得洛斯寓言。寓言中，有一個禿子打落在自己頭上的蒼蠅，但卻給了自己的頭一擊。蒼蠅說：「你因為我碰了你你就想殺我，那你現在在傷口上撒鹽（added insult to injury），你要對自己做什麼呢？」首個英語內的措辭記載出現於18世紀中葉。

發音

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動詞

add insult to injury (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 adds insult to injury，現在分詞 adding insult to injury，一般過去時及過去分詞 added insult to injury)

1. (俗語) 落井下石；火上澆油

   To add insult to injury,...

   更糟糕的是，...

   As if the hostile takeover weren't enough, to add insult to injury they scrapped ninety percent of our products and replaced them with their own.

   惡意收購還不夠，他們還雪上加霜，把我們百分之九十的產品都換成了他們的。

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, ISBN 978-1846684777，第 52 頁:

     [...] the line crossed over an iron bridge spanning Ludgate Hill itself [...] neatly obliterating any view of St Paul's from Ludgate Circus and Fleet Street. A thousand people had put their names to a petition against the bridge. To add insult to injury it carried a small thicket of railway signals as well as regular steam trains.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

用法說明

• 這個表達方式基本上沒有變體，除了heap insult on injury。

近義詞

參見 Thesaurus:make matters worse

衍生詞彙

• insult to injury

參見

• grave dancing