spleen
柯林斯詞典
1. N-COUNT Your spleen is an organ near your stomach that controls the quality of your blood. 脾臟
2. N-UNCOUNT Spleen is great and bitter anger. 怨氣; 怒氣[正式] [usu poss N]
Paul Fussell's latest book vents his spleen against everything he hates about his country. 保羅·富塞爾在他的新書(shū)中發(fā)泄了他對(duì)自己國(guó)家的所有不滿(mǎn)。
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spleen /spli?n/ (spleens)
劍橋詞典
spleen noun (ORGAN)
[ 可數(shù)名詞:有復(fù)數(shù)形式的名詞 ]an organ near the stomach that produces and cleans the body's blood
脾
spleen noun (ANGER)
[ 不可數(shù)或單數(shù)名詞:沒(méi)有復(fù)數(shù)形式的名詞 ] formala feeling of anger and disagreement
憤怒;不滿(mǎn);憤懣
mainly UK She threatened , in a fit /burst of spleen, to resign . 她一時(shí)惱怒,威脅說(shuō)要辭職。
Shareholders used the conference as an opportunity to vent their spleen on (= get angry with) the Board of Directors. 股東們把大會(huì)當(dāng)成了向董事會(huì)泄憤的機(jī)會(huì)。 返回 spleen