喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can think of crick as a bend that got stuck. A neck is held at an odd angle for too long — against a bus window, over a laptop, tipped back at a tall building — and the muscle stops letting go. Everything the word does comes out of that one small, stubborn bend: the feeling it leaves, the movement that caused it, and the word you use while you are still holding the awkward angle.

crick 可以想成「一個卡住的彎」。脖子被擺在一個奇怪的角度太久，靠著公車窗、趴在筆電上、或是仰頭看高樓，肌肉就不…更多收起crick 可以想成「一個卡住的彎」。脖子被擺在一個奇怪的角度太久，靠著公車窗、趴在筆電上、或是仰頭看高樓，肌肉就不肯鬆開了。這個小小的彎撐起了整個字：卡住以後的僵痛是它，把自己弄成那樣的動作是它，正扭著脖子要看東西時用的也是它。

From the word’s history

Middle English crike meant a spasm of the neck as early as the 1400s, and is likely related to Old Norse kriki, a bend or a nook — the same bend that is still in the modern word.

中古英語 crike 在十五世紀就指「脖子抽筋」，而它很可能跟古北歐語 kriki（彎曲、角落）有關。也就是說，「彎」這個畫面從一開始就在字裡，今天仍然留著。

Wiktionary entry for crick (etymology 1), kaikki extract 3f6f69a190036ae4:1195991289

Two branches

卡住以後的僵痛

這個家族看的是「彎」之後留下來的結果：肌肉不放鬆，頭轉不動。

noun · B2

A sudden stiff, painful feeling in the muscles of your neck or your back, which makes it hard to turn or bend that part of your body for a while.

落枕、脖子僵痛

把自己弄成那個彎

同一個畫面換成動作：不是描述那個彎，而是你正在做出那個彎。

verb · B2

To hurt your neck or your back by bending or turning it in a way that leaves the muscles tight and sore.

扭到、弄僵（脖子、背）

原始詞典資料11 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。

Crickname

  • 1

    A village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, Northamptonshire, England, previously in Daventry district (OS grid ref SP5872).

  • 2

    A small village in Caerwent community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref ST4890).

  • 3

    A habitational surname derived from the placename.

    • Francis Crick was the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA.

cricknoun詞源 1/kɹɪk/

  • 1

    A painful stiffness in some part of the body, like the neck or back, which makes it difficult to move the affected body part for some time; a cramp.

    • I had a crick in my neck for a week after ordering the wrong pillow at the Graylyn Estate […]
  • 2

    A small jackscrew.

crickverb詞源 1/kɹɪk/

  • 1

    To develop a crick (cramp, spasm).

    • Stomach sleeping never worked for her because her neck cricked and pained in so short a time, that she never got the chance to fall asleep that way although the rest of her body snuggled well into the bed in that position.
    • “He's upstairs.” As soon as she said this, a loud knocking came from the crawl space below. Katrín was so startled that her neck cricked painfully as she looked down. Adrenalin rushed through her veins and the pain in her fingers disappeared.
  • 2

    To cause to develop a crick; to create a crick in.

    • He'd fallen asleep after all (and he'd done it in such a way as to crick his neck and his back and put his right arm to sleep; hardly a good start to a busy day) and now daylight was seeping through the bald patches in the thatch, ...
  • 3

    To twist, bend, or contort, especially in a way that produces strain.

    • He stopped a few feet from her, probably because he'd have to crick his neck to glare at her and that would just be embarrassing for him. “Dealing with garbage suits you.”
    • The throbbing pain that even now was coursing through his neck and shoulders, making him crick his neck.

crickverb詞源 3/kɹɪk/

  • 1

    To make a sharp, penetrating sound; chirp.

cricknoun詞源 3/kɹɪk/

  • 1

    The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.

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。