英语词汇hamstring的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	hamstring
词源	hamstring. The part of the leg behind the knee was once called the ham in English and the tendons there were given the name ham string, a designation still used today. To cut the hamstrings was to cripple or disable someone, which gives us the expression to hamstring “to cripple, or destroy the activity or efficiency of,” an expression first recorded by John Milton in 1641.
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