vent
vent 英 [vent] 美 [vɛnt]
n. 发泄；通风口 v. 发泄感情
进行时:venting 过去式:vented 过去分词:vented 第三人称单数:vents 名词复数:vents
- When you vent, you let something out, whether it's hot air or your feelings. If you vent your feelings, you let out a strong and sometimes angry emotion and just say what you think.
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- n. 发泄；通风口
- v. 发泄感情
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1. air vents, heating vents
通气孔；热风孔
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2. She gave full vent to her feelings in a violent outburst.
她大发脾气以宣泄情绪。
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3. He vented his anger on the referee.
他把气撒在裁判身上。
- vent (n.) c. 1400, "anus," from Old French vent from verb eventer (see vent (v.)) and in part from Middle English aventer, from the French verb. Perhaps also merged with or influenced by Middle English fent "opening or slit in a the front of a garment (usually held closed with a brooch)," c. 1400, from Old French fente, from Latin findere "to split" (from PIE root *bheid- "to split"). Meaning "outlet for water," also "air hole, breathing hole" is from mid-15c. Meaning "action of venting" is recorded from c. 1500.
- vent (v.) late 14c., "emit from a confined space," probably a shortening of aventer "expose oneself to the air" (c. 1300), from Old French eventer "let out, expose to air," from Vulgar Latin *exventare, from Latin ex "out" + ventus "wind" (see wind (n.1)). Sense of "express freely" first recorded 1590s. Sense of "divulge, publish" (1590s) is behind phrase vent one's spleen (see spleen). Related: Vented; venting.
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