- 1扭傷（腳踝、手腕等關節）。注意跟「拉傷」（strain，肌肉）和「骨折」（break）分開；台灣講「我腳踝扭到了」就是這個字
To hurt a joint — usually an ankle, wrist or knee — by twisting it suddenly, so that the tough bands holding the bones together get stretched or torn. Nothing is broken, but it swells, turns colour and hurts to use. It is also a noun: 'a bad sprain'. The important thing is which words go with it. You sprain a JOINT (ankle, wrist, knee, thumb), you STRAIN a muscle (back, hamstring), and you BREAK a bone. English keeps these three apart, and native speakers hear the difference immediately. The usual pattern is 'sprain your ankle' — English uses the here, not 'the'. In practice people also say 'twist my ankle' for a mild one, and doctors write 'sprained ankle' on the note.
組成Origin unknown. The noun appears in English around 1601 and the verb about twenty years later. It may come from Middle French espraindre, 'to squeeze or press out', from Latin exprimere — if that is right, it is a distant relative of 'express'. Scholars are not certain, so hold that loosely.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
sprainverb/spɹeɪn/
- 1
To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation
- He sprained his knee after falling off the bicycle.
- Hi! I suppose you're expecting the Roadrunner! Well, he sprained a giblet cornering a sharp coive the other day, uh, so, uh, I'm standing in for him.
sprainnoun/spɹeɪn/
- 1
The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining
- a bad sprain of the wrist
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