detrimental 的意思是有害的，有損的，不利的。它的詞源是從法語(yǔ)的detriment 來(lái)的，意思是損害，損失。

你可以用以下方法記憶這個(gè)詞：

• 把detrimental 拆成de-tri-mental，想象有害的事物會(huì)讓你de（減少）tri（三）mental（精神），也就是讓你失去三分之一的精神。

• 把detrimental 和beneficial 對(duì)比記憶，beneficial 是有益的，detrimental 是有害的，兩者相反。

這里是一些不同含義下的例句：

• Smoking is detrimental to your health. 吸煙對(duì)你的健康有害。

• The lack of rain was detrimental to the crops. 缺雨對(duì)莊稼有損害。

• He argued that the new law was detrimental to the interests of the workers. 他辯稱(chēng)新法律對(duì)工人的利益不利。

Life is full of choices?

Some are good, some are bad?

Some are beneficial?

Some are detrimental

Choose wisely what you do?

Think of the consequences?

Don’t let the detrimental ones?

Ruin your chances