add insult to injury

短语
大学

伤害之余又侮辱

发音

AU

词形变化

added insult to injury adds insult to injury 三单 adds insult to injury adding insult to injury 现在分词 added insult to injury 过去式 added insult to injury 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To further a loss with mockery or indignity; to worsen an already unfavorable situation.

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    习语

    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.

词源

Derived from the fables of Phaedrus in the first century CE. The story was of a bald man who swats at a fly which has just landed on his head, but instead hits himself on the head. The fly comments, "You wished to kill me for a touch. What will you do to yourself since you have added insult to injury?" (quid facies tibi, Iniuriae qui addideris contumeliam?) The actual wording appears in English from the middle of the 18th century.

来源：wiktionary