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As a noun, your hamstring is one of the and muscles at the back of your thigh, behind the knee — important for running, and easy to ('a hamstring injury'). As a verb, 'to hamstring' someone or something means to badly limit their ability to act or succeed — it originally meant cutting the of an animal's leg to disable it.
膕旁肌、大腿後肌腱；(動)嚴重阻礙、使無法發揮
組成ham (an old word for the back of the thigh/knee) + string (a tendon, thought of as a string of the body)
原始詞典資料4 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。
hamstringnoun/ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/
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anatomymedicinesciencesOne of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.
- Lanctot slipped the tourniquet around the other, just under his groin, and twisted it tight, clamping quadriceps and hamstring hard to bone.
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informalThe biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus muscles.
- Developing muscle around both sides of a joint (think biceps and triceps, abs and low back, quads and hamstrings) should be one of your primary training considerations because strength on each side leads to lower injury rates.
hamstringverb/ˈhæmstɹɪŋ/
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To lame or disable by cutting the tendons of the ham or knee; to hough.
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To cripple; to incapacitate; to disable.
- So have they hamstrung the valor of the subject by seeking to effeminate us all at home.
- Its trademark policies of privatization, deregulation, tax cuts and free trade deals: these have liberated corporations to accumulate enormous profits and treat the atmosphere like a sewage dump, and hamstrung our ability, through the instrument of the state, to plan for our collective welfare.
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。