Pent up

抑制,克制

📖 牛津释义

pent up adj (of feelings) not expressed; repressed (指感情)不流露的, 被抑制的 feelings that have been pent up for too long 压抑过久的感情 ,pent-up `anger, emotion, frustration, etc 郁结的愤懑、 情感、 沮丧等.

🧩 词语组成解析

pent
a. 被关禁的, 被关起来的\\nn. 单斜顶棚
up [ʌp]
adv. 在上面,在高处;起床,起来;向上;由低到高; adj. 向上的;上升的;竖立的,垂直的;举起的; vt.& vi. 增加;加速;提高;举起,拿起; prep. 在…的上端;向高处;沿…而去;向…上游; n. 上升,升高;兴旺,繁荣;上坡;(价格等)上涨;

🗣️ 情景例句

We'll spend many more weekends like this.
我们以后可以多度几次这样的周末。
What is the total circulation of this newsletter.
这份新闻通讯总发行量多少?
The reader's hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands.
当读者到小说最后几页了解到书中女主人公,那位一向待大家很好的可爱的老妇人年轻时一连毒死了她的5个丈夫时,不禁会毛骨悚然。
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