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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- pent-up
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1.
adj
[pent up when postpositive]
not released; repressed
- pent-up emotions
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2.
adj
kept unwillingly
- I've been pent up in this office for over a year
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1.
adj
[pent up when postpositive]
not released; repressed
Examples
- pent-up emotion
- 被抑制的情感 → pent-up
- pent-up emotions → pent-up
- I've been pent up in this office for over a year → pent-up
- 窝了一肚子火
- be filled with pent-up anger; be simmering with rage; be forced to bottle up one's anger → 窝火
- 憋了一肚子火
- be filled with pent-up anger → 憋
- 憋着一肚子气
- have pent-up grievances → 憋气
- 一肚子气
- absolutely exasperated; full of pent-up anger → 肚子
- 窝了一肚子气
- have pent-up grievances → 窝气
- 宣泄心中的积郁
- give vent to one's pent-up feelings → 宣泄
- 郁积的愤怒
- pent-up fury → 郁积
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