hamstring

• n. 腿筋
• vt. 切斷腿筋使成跛腿；使殘廢

ham,膝彎，string,弦。引申詞義肌腱。

hamstring (v.)

1640s, "to disable, render useless," a figurative verbal extension from hamstring (n.) "tendon at the back of the knee." Cutting this would render a person or animal lame. Literal sense of the verb is attested from 1670s. Since it is a verb from a noun-noun compound, hamstrung as a past participle is technically incorrect.

[I]n hamstring, -string is not the verb string; we do not string the ham, but do something to the tendon called the hamstring; the verb, that is, is made not from the two words ham & string, but from the noun hamstring. It must therefore make hamstringed. [Fowler]

hamstring (n.)

"tendon at the back of the knee," 1560s, from ham "bend of the knee" (see ham (n.1)) + string (n.).

1. She's pulled a hamstring.

她拉傷了一條膕繩肌腱。

來自《權威詞典》

2. If he becomes the major opposition leader, he could hamstring a conservative-led coalition.

如果他成為主要反對黨的領袖，可能會導致保守黨領導的聯合政府陷於癱瘓。

來自柯林斯例句

3. A damaged hamstring has ruled him out of contention for Wednesday's international against Spain.

膕繩肌腱拉傷使他無法參加星期三對抗西班牙的國際比賽。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Webster has not played since suffering a hamstring injury in the opening game.

韋伯斯特自從在首場比賽中傷了繩肌腱後就再也沒有參賽了。

來自柯林斯例句

5. He felt a slight twinge in his damaged hamstring.

他受傷的膕繩肌感到一陣輕微的刺痛。

來自辭典例句