spasm
英 ['spæz(ə)m]
美 ['spæzəm]
助記提示
1. span (literally, 'stretch, tighten') => spasm.
2. spa + -sm (諧音“死麻”) => 泡溫泉的時候，突然覺得腿部非常的麻木，原來是抽筋、痙攣了。
3. 諧音“死掰死(韌兒)麻”-----這就是腿腳抽筋、痙攣的症狀。
中文詞源
spasm 痙攣，抽搐，陣發性發作來自拉丁語 spasmus,來自希臘語 spasmos,痙攣，抽搐，來自 PIE*spe,拉長，拉伸，詞源同 span,spade,-asm,名詞後綴。
英文詞源
- spasm
- spasm: [14] A spasm is etymologically a sudden ‘stretching’ of a muscle (although in fact physiologically spasms are contractions of muscle tissue). The word comes via Old French spasme and Latin spasmus from Greek spasmós, a derivative of the verb span ‘pull’. This in turn was descended from the Indo-European base *spə- ‘stretch’. The metaphorical notion of ‘intermittence’ (based on the intervals between spasms) emerged in the derived adjective spasmodic [17] in the 19th century.
=> stadium - spasm (n.)
- late 14c., "sudden violent muscular contraction," from Old French spasme (13c.) and directly from Latin spasmus "a spasm," from Greek spasmos "a spasm, convulsion," from span "draw up, tear away, contract violently, pull, pluck," from PIE *spe- "stretch." Figurative sense of "a sudden convulsion" (of emotion, politics, etc.) is attested from 1817.
- spasm (v.)
- 1900, from spasm (n.). Related: Spasmed; spasming.
雙語例句
- 1. A spasm of pain brought his thoughts back to the present.
- 一陣劇痛把他的思緒拉回到了現在。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. A muscular spasm in the coronary artery can cause a heart attack.
- 冠狀動脈的肌肉痙攣可能導致心髒病。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. A lack of magnesium causes muscles to go into spasm.
- 缺鎂會導致肌肉痙攣。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Kemp felt a spasm of fear.
- 肯普突然感到一陣恐懼。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The injection sent his leg into spasm .
- 一針打下去，他的腿就痙攣了。
來自《權威詞典》