Note that when someone is hurt accidentally, for example, in a car crash or when they are playing sport, you do not use the word wound. You use injure and injury instead. A man and his baby were injured in the explosion... Many of the deaths that occur in cycling are due to head injuries. In more formal English, injury can also be an uncount noun. Two teenagers escaped serious injury when their car rolled down an embankment. Wound is normally restricted to soldiers who are injured in battle, or to deliberate acts of violence against a particular person. ...stab wounds.

注意，表示某人受到意外傷害，如路遇車禍或進行體育運動時受傷，不能用 wound, 而要用 injure 或 injury：A man and his baby were injured in the explosion (一名男子和他的小孩在爆炸中受傷)，Many of the deaths that occur in cycling are due to head injuries (騎自行車時發生的死亡事故很多都是由於頭部受傷所致)。在較爲正式的英語中，injury 也可作不可數名詞：Two teenagers escaped serious injury when their car rolled down an embankment (兩個少年在汽車滾下堤岸後僥幸沒有受重傷)。wound 通常僅限於指士兵在戰場上受傷，或指因蓄意實施的暴力行爲而受傷：stab wounds (刺傷)。