身體上的那一撞
最貼著核心畫面的一支：一個是撞完的結果，一個是造成它的力道。
noun · B2
The purple or brown marks that come up on your skin after you have fallen or knocked against something, and the fact of having them.
瘀青；瘀傷
核心畫面
Picture what happens after a hard knock. The skin does not break, so at first there is nothing to see. The damage is underneath, and a day later the colour comes up through the skin — purple, then brown. Two things make this picture useful: the harm is under an surface, and it shows itself slowly and slowly. Every use of bruising keeps one or both of those, whether the thing that was knocked is a leg or a week of your life.
可以想成重重撞到之後的那個過程。皮膚沒有破，所以當下什麼都看不到。壞掉的是底下的血管，顏色要過一天才浮上來，先是紫的…更多收起
可以想成重重撞到之後的那個過程。皮膚沒有破，所以當下什麼都看不到。壞掉的是底下的血管，顏色要過一天才浮上來，先是紫的，再變成褐色。這個畫面有兩個地方特別好用：一是傷在完整的表面底下，二是它慢慢浮現、也慢慢退掉。bruising 的每一種用法，都留著其中一個或兩個，差別只在被撞到的是一條腿，還是你人生中的一個星期。From the word’s history
Recorded in the source as bruise + -ing, literally the bruising of something.
來源資料把這個字記成 bruise（撞出瘀青）加上 -ing。可以想成它指的是「撞出瘀青這件事」，所以名詞用法講的是整體狀況，形容詞用法講的是「會造成這件事的」。
Wiktionary etymology_text in packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:541395875 / 541396820 / 541399685): From bruise + -ing.
Two branches
心裡的那一撞
把同一個畫面從皮膚搬到心裡：表面完好，底下已經瘀了。
adjective · C1
Difficult and unpleasant in a way that leaves you tired or hurt inside — used about contests, arguments, and hard periods of work.
讓人心力交瘁的
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bruisingadj/ˈbɹuːzɪŋ/
- 1
That bruises.
- 2
Wearisome, arduous.
- Instead England produced something that felt a little transgressive in this most controlled of stages, tightening their grip in a bruising first half, before freewheeling downhill in the second with their feet up on the handlebars.
bruisingnoun/ˈbɹuːzɪŋ/
- 1
slangA violent physical attack on a person.
- You'd better shut up or you'll get a bruising.
- 2
Bruises on a person's skin.
- […] on October 29, 1888, the Russian imperial train was derailed at Borki by defective track, and twenty-one persons were killed. Although these did not include the Emperor Alexander III, who escaped with a bruising, a footman serving coffee to him at the critical moment, and his dog, which was lying on the floor beside him, were both killed on the spot.
- Of the nine staff in the third coach, most had been having a break, drinking tea or reading. One suffered a fractured skull, another a fractured shoulder. All were either thrown along or across the coach, sustaining cuts, bruising and whiplash injuries.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。