- 1揮鞭式頸部創傷、頸椎揮鞭症候群；口語就說「（車禍後）落枕/脖子扭到」，但正式病名是揮鞭式損傷
Whiplash is a neck injury. In a car crash — most often when another car hits you from behind — your car is pushed forward suddenly but your head stays where it is for a moment, then snaps forward and back again. That fast whip-like movement stretches and tears the muscles and other soft parts of the neck. The pain and stiffness often do not start straight away; many people feel fine at the scene and only wake up sore the next morning, which is why doctors ask you to come back. It is uncountable in this medical use: you 'get whiplash' or 'suffer whiplash', not 'a whiplash'. You will also meet it as 'whiplash injury'. The word is very common in talk about insurance and compensation claims in Britain, sometimes with a doubting tone, because it is an injury that does not show on an X-ray. The same word has an older, plainer meaning: the lash of a whip, the thin end that does the hitting — and from that people use 'whiplash' for any sudden violent back-and-forth movement, as in 'the whiplash of the branch' or, in news writing, 'economic whiplash' for prices or policy swinging quickly one way then the other. As a verb, something whiplashes when it moves like that.
組成whip + lash. A 'lash' is the long thin cord of a whip, so a whiplash is the whip's tip — the part that flicks fast and hard. The injury is named after that flicking movement, not after being hit.
原始詞典資料5 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。
whiplashnoun/ˈwɪpˌlæʃ/
- 1
The lash of a whip.
- 2
An injury to the upper spine connected to a violent jerk of the head in either a backward or forward or side to side direction, resembling the motion of a whip.
- 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.
- 3
An abrupt and unexpected change, or the resulting feeling of shock.
- tonal whiplash
- Some parents, feeling too hurt by the push-off or taking their teenager’s rejections too personally, choose to make themselves unavailable. In some ways it does feel better to avoid episodes of emotional whiplash.
whiplashverb/ˈwɪpˌlæʃ/
- 1
To jerk back and forth; to buffet.
- […] Ms. Kennedy has been whiplashed by assertions that she is at once protected and presumptuous.
- 2
To lash as if with a whip.
- After a while, he let go of my hand in order to protect his own face from being whiplashed by the low branches.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。