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hamstring v. 切断腿筋使成跛腿，使残废 hamstring (v.) 1640s, "to disable, render useless," a figurative verbal extension from the noun hamstring "tendon at the back of the knee" (1560s), from ham "bend of the knee" (see ham (n.1)) + string (n.). Cutting this would render a person or animal lame. Related: Hamstrung.[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] 无

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['hæmstri6] 无 v. (割断人或动物的腿腱)使...变为残废; 使不起作用, 使无效【记】ham = harm(v 伤害), string绳子, 腿腱: 使残废, 使无效【类】hamstring: effectiveness = enervate: vitality使无效消除效力 = 削弱消除生命力

单词	hamstring
音标	['hæmstri6]
解释	v. 切断腿筋使成跛腿，使残废
红宝书	无
字源	hamstring (v.) 1640s, "to disable, render useless," a figurative verbal extension from the noun hamstring "tendon at the back of the knee" (1560s), from ham "bend of the knee" (see ham (n.1)) + string (n.). Cutting this would render a person or animal lame. Related: Hamstrung. [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]
不择手段背单词	v. (割断人或动物的腿腱)使...变为残废; 使不起作用, 使无效【记】ham = harm(v 伤害), string绳子, 腿腱: 使残废, 使无效【类】hamstring: effectiveness = enervate: vitality使无效消除效力 = 削弱消除生命力
趣味全助记	无

Hamstring Ham V 无 Render Noun Knee String