| 释义 |
unˈvented, (ppl.) a.
[un-1 8, 9.]
Not provided with a vent or outlet; not allowed to issue.
c1618Fletcher Mad Lover ii. i, Things like our selves, as sensual, vain, unvented Bubbles, and breaths of air. 1624Quarles Job Militant xvi. 26 I'me full, and I must speake, Or, like vnuented vessels, I must breake. 1630–40― Funeral Elegies xviii, The false teare, that's forc'd, or slides by Art,..Or dares (unvented) come to composition. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt xi, The company..perhaps felt the more, as they seated themselves with an expectation unvented by utterance. |