spleen: [13] Spleen comes via Old French esplen and Latin splēn from Greek splén, which may have been related to Latin liēn ‘spleen’ and Greek splágkhnon ‘entrails’ (source of English splanchnic ‘of the viscera’ [17]). In medieval physiology many internal organs were held to be the seat of a particular emotion, and the spleen was no exception. It had several conflicting states of mind attributed to it, but the one which survives is ‘moroseness’ or ‘bad temper’, in the derived adjective splenetic [16].
spleen (n.)
c. 1300, from Old French esplen, from Latin splen, from Greek splen "the milt, spleen," from PIE *spelgh- "spleen, milt" (cognates: Sanskrit plihan-, Avestan sperezan, Armenian p'aicaln, Latin lien, Old Church Slavonic slezena, Lithuanian blužnis, Old Prussian blusne, Old Irish selg "spleen").
Regarded in medieval physiology as the seat of morose feelings and bad temper. Hence figurative sense of "violent ill-temper" (1580s, implied in spleenful); and thence spleenless "free from anger, ill-humor, malice, or spite" (1610s).
实用例句
1. The spleen - qi fails to send up nutrients.
脾气不升.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2. Paul Fussell's latest book vents his spleen against everything he hates about his country.
保罗·富塞尔在新作中发泄了他对国家的所有不满。
来自柯林斯例句
3. When I get so frustrated and angry, I have to vent my spleen on someone.
当我非常灰心丧气、憋着一肚子火时, 就得找人出气.
来自《简明英汉词典》
4. But , unexpectedly, he started venting his spleen on her.
哪知道, 老头子说着说着绕到她身上来.
来自汉英文学 - 骆驼祥子
5. There were other targets for Mr Livingston's spleen.
