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Vent French Latin One's Eventer Sense Recorded C.1400

单词 vent
音标 [vent]
解释 v.发泄(情绪);开孔;n.孔,口
红宝书 【英】 v.发泄(情绪) (discharge, expel);开孔(to provide with a vent);n.孔,口(an opening)
【例】 vent one's anger on sb. / air-conditioning vents in the ceiling(天花板上的 空调通气口)
字源 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.
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" (see fissure). Meaning "outlet for water," also "air hole, breathing hole" is from mid-15c. Meaning "action of venting" is recorded from c.1500.
不择手段背单词
趣味全助记 【记】近于wind 风,通风口;invent 发明,是指脑子开窍,开了个ven

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