spleen

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n. 脾脏, 坏脾气, 怨恨 [医] 脾

发音

UK /spliːn/

词形变化

spleens 复数 spleens spleened spleening spleens 三单 spleening 现在分词 spleened 过去式 spleened 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.

    脾脏

    可数 不可数 医学
  2. 2.

    A bad mood; spitefulness. Compare gall.

    古体 可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.

    可数 废旧 罕用 不可数
  4. 4.

    Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.

    可数 废旧 不可数
  5. 5.

    A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.

    可数 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To dislike.

    废旧 及物
  2. 2.

    To annoy or irritate.

  3. 3.

    To complain; to rail; to vent one's spleen.

    及物/不及物
  4. 4.

    To remove the spleen, or, by extension, to gore.

  5. 5.

    To excise or remove.

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词源

From Middle English splene, splen, from Anglo-Norman espleen and Old French esplein, esplen, from Latin splēn (“milt”), from Ancient Greek σπλήν (splḗn, “the spleen”). Doublet of lien. Partially displaced the native English term milt.

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