hamstring

• ハムストリング
• vt.ハムストリングを切断して不自由にする。

ハム、膝の曲げ伸ばし、弦、ひも。腱から派生。

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 .

彼女はハムストリング腱を負傷した。

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

彼が主要野党の指導者になると、保守党指導部の連立政府が麻痺する恐れがある。

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

ハムストリング腱の引き抜き傷で水曜日のスペインとの国際試合に参加できなくなった。

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

ウェブスターは初戦で腱を中傷して以来、出場していない。

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

彼が傷ついたハムストリング筋に軽い痛みを感じた。