spleen
英 [spliːn]
美 [splin]
助記提示
spleen...........撕破臉（撕破臉皮，惱火）.....壞脾氣；怒氣
2. 諧音“死脾爛、死脾擰”------死脾氣真爛。
3. 諧音“是脾淋”-----脾髒是重要的淋巴器官，具有造血、濾血、清除衰老血細胞及參與免疫反應等功能。脾髒是機體最大的免疫器官，占全身淋巴組織總量的25%，含有大量的淋巴細胞和巨噬細胞，是機體細胞免疫和體液免疫的中心。
中文詞源
spleen 脾，怒火，怒氣來自拉丁語 splen,來自希臘 splen,來自 PIE*spelgh,脾。因中世紀醫學理論認為脾是人體怒火 和怒氣鬱積之所，因而引申詞義怒火，怒氣。
英文詞源
- spleen
- 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).
雙語例句
- 1. The spleen - qi fails to send up nutrients.
- 脾氣不升.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
- 2. Paul Fussell's latest book vents his spleen against everything he hates about his country.
- 保羅·富塞爾在新作中發泄了他對國家的所有不滿。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. When I get so frustrated and angry, I have to vent my spleen on someone.
- 當我非常灰心喪氣、憋著一肚子火時, 就得找人出氣.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. But , unexpectedly, he started venting his spleen on her.
- 哪知道, 老頭子說著說著繞到她身上來.
來自漢英文學 - 駱駝祥子
- 5. There were other targets for Mr Livingston's spleen.
- 讓利文斯頓先生大怒的還有其他一些人。
來自辭典例句