| 词组 | hamstring |
| 释义 | hamstring H. W. Fowler made the verb hamstring a minor usage issue in 1926 by arguing that its past tense and past participle should be hamstringed and not hamstrung, inasmuch as it is derived from the noun hamstring and has no relation to the verb string. Later commentators have had to balance their respect for Fowler's opinions against the evidence of actual usage, which shows clearly that hamstrung is the form now established in standard use. Many commentators compromise by saying that both hamstringed and hamstrung are acceptable, but our own evidence indicates that hamstringed has now fallen entirely out of use—we have no 20th-century example of it in our files. Most dictionaries now recognize only hamstrung, and we recommend that form to you. Notice how unidiomatic hamstringed would sound in any of the following passages: • A few other U.S. attorneys hamstrung specialists by refusing to let them deal with state and local officials —Robert E. Taylor, Wall Street Jour., 28 Sept. 1981 • ... had been hamstrung by Roosevelt's reluctance — Robert A. Caro, Atlantic, November 1981 • ... an arrogant brilliance that has the local cops hamstrung —Jack Kroll, Newsweek, 9 June 1986 |
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