How to translate 動詞+かのような+名詞?


I don't know how to translate this sentence. Can you help me? Here is the
sentence:

> 頭に釘を打たれたかのような激痛が１日以上続きました。

I think it's really difficult to translate " 動詞+かのような+名詞 "




The key phrase is **"as if"**. It should work basically every time you need to
translate a phrase containing 「かのような」.

"Verb Phrase + かのような + Noun" = "(Noun) as if (Verb Phrase) "

Whatever event is described in the verb phrase DID NOT occur. Instead, it
**_feels [just] as if_** it had happened; It is always a **_metaphorical
expression_** or simile.

「[頭]{あたま}に[釘]{くぎ}を[打]{う}たれたかのような[激痛]{げきつう}」 =

"a/the 激痛 that felt as if 頭に釘を打たれた" =

" ** _an acute pain that felt as if I had a nail hammered into my head_** "

It lasted over a day.

It would have lasted many weeks if someone actually hammered a nail down into
the guy's head, wouldn't it have?

