hamstring是什么意思

n. 腿筋

vt. 切断腿筋使成跛腿；使残废

中文词源

hamstring 肌腱

ham,膝弯，string,弦。引申词义肌腱。

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. 火腿肠(ham sausage), 火腿(ham).

2. If he becomes the major opposition leader, he could hamstring a conservative-led coalition.: 如果他成为主要反对党的领袖，可能会导致保守党领导的联合政府陷于瘫痪。

3. A damaged hamstring has ruled him out of contention for Wednesday's international against Spain.: 腘绳肌腱拉伤使他无法参加星期三对抗西班牙的国际比赛。

4. Webster has not played since suffering a hamstring injury in the opening game.: 韦伯斯特自从在首场比赛中伤了绳肌腱后就再也没有参赛了。