Picture what happens after a hard knock. The skin does not break, so at first there is nothing to see. The damage is underneath, and a day later the colour comes up through the skin — purple, then brown. Two things make this picture useful: the harm is under an surface, and it shows itself slowly and slowly. Every use of bruising keeps one or both of those, whether the thing that was knocked is a leg or a week of your life.
From the word’s history
Recorded in the source as bruise + -ing, literally the bruising of something.
來源資料把這個字記成 bruise（撞出瘀青）加上 -ing。可以想成它指的是「撞出瘀青這件事」，所以名詞用法講的是整體狀況，形容詞用法講的是「會造成這件事的」。
Wiktionary etymology_text in packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:541395875 / 541396820 / 541399685): From bruise + -ing.
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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。
bruisingadj/ˈbɹuːzɪŋ/
- 1
That bruises.
- 2
Wearisome, arduous.
- Instead England produced something that felt a little transgressive in this most controlled of stages, tightening their grip in a bruising first half, before freewheeling downhill in the second with their feet up on the handlebars.
bruisingnoun/ˈbɹuːzɪŋ/
- 1
slangA violent physical attack on a person.
- You'd better shut up or you'll get a bruising.
- 2
Bruises on a person's skin.
- […] on October 29, 1888, the Russian imperial train was derailed at Borki by defective track, and twenty-one persons were killed. Although these did not include the Emperor Alexander III, who escaped with a bruising, a footman serving coffee to him at the critical moment, and his dog, which was lying on the floor beside him, were both killed on the spot.
- 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.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。