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 blu?nis, 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).
例文
1. The spleen -qi fails to send up nutrients.
気性が上がらない.
2.Paul Fussell 's latest book vents his spleen against everything he hates about his country.
ポール?フューゼルは新作で国に対するすべての不満をぶちまけた。
3.When I get so frustrated and angry，I have to vent my spleen on someone.
とてもがっかりして、腹の中に火を止めているときは、誰かに気をつけなければなりません。
4.But，unexpectedly，he started venting his spleen on her.
さあ、じいさんはそう言って彼女の身に回った。
5.There were other targets for Mr Livingston 's spleen .