electric cattle prods什么意思？

哈哈，prod原本是“刺”，军事用语中专指“(装雷管用的)药包端孔顶杆”。
关于electric cattle prod,有如下解释和由来：
hotshot is typically cylindrical, and can carry an open electric current at the "shock end" when activated. The electric current at the shock end runs through two metal electrodes. Anything which touches the electric current receives a high-voltage low-current shock, not strong enough to kill a human or a large animal such as a cow or sheep from short-term exposure, but it is enough to cause significant pain.

The electric cattle prod was originally created to apply a painful shock to cattle, and thus "prod" them along; the pain stimulates movement. Some higher-voltage hotshots can interfere with radio and CB radio reception when activated.

There were reports of police using them on humans, before specialized police stun batons were available.

There are various designs of electric cattle prods. Their shape is often subject to guidelines of what can ea