concussion: [15] The etymological notion underlying concussion is of ‘violent shaking’; the modern connotation of a ‘jarring injury to the brain’ did not emerge until the 16th century. The word comes from late Latin concussiō, a noun derived from the past participial stem of concutere ‘shake violently’. This was a compound verb formed from the intensive prefix com- and -cutere, an alteration of quatere ‘shake, strike’ (its variant quassāre was the source of English quash and cashier ‘dismiss’, and probably lies behind cascara [19], etymologically ‘bark broken off the tree’).
The verb concuss is 17th-century. The related percussion [16] comes ultimately from Latin percutere ‘strike through’. => cascara, cashier, percussion, quash, rescue
concussion (n.)
c. 1400, from Latin concussionem (nominative concussio) "a shaking," noun of action from past participle stem of concutere "shake violently," from com- "together" (see com-) + quatere "to shake" (see quash). Modern brain injury sense is from 1540s.
雙語例句
1. Nicky was rushed to hospital with concussion.
尼基因腦震蕩被火速送往醫(yī)院。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He was taken to hospital with concussion.
他因腦震蕩被送進醫(yī)院。
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
3. He was carried off the field with slight concussion.
他因輕微腦震蕩給抬離了現(xiàn)場.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. She suffers from brain concussion.
她得了腦震蕩.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. She fell off a horse and suffered a concussion.