hamstring

英 ['h?mstr??] 美

低頻詞TEM8GRE暢通詞匯

第三人稱單數:?hamstrings;過去式:?hamstrung;過去分詞:?hamstrung;現在分詞:?hamstringing;

1. 火腿腸(ham sausage), 火腿(ham).

hamstring 肌腱

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.).

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于癱瘓。

3. A damaged hamstring has ruled him out of contention for Wednesday's international against Spain.: 腘繩肌腱拉傷使他無法參加星期三對抗西班牙的國際比賽。

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后就再也沒有參賽了。