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Pent-up feelings or energy have been held inside for a long time and not let out. People talk about pent-up anger, pent-up frustration, pent-up excitement: the feeling is still there, pressed down, and it may burst out later. A child who has had to sit still through a long afternoon can have pent-up energy. The word comes from an old way of saying shut in, like animals shut in a pen; today we almost always use it about emotions and energy, not about locked rooms. You usually write it with a : pent-up.
壓抑已久的；悶了很久的（情緒、精力）
組成pent (old past form of pen, 'to shut in') + up.
同家族的字
- penthe old verb 'to pen' means to shut in; pent is its old past form
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pent-upadj/pɛnt ʌp/
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Not expressed.
- I remember, particularly, how, in his speech here, he referred to what his family had suffered in Kansas, without ever giving the least vent to his pent-up fire.
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Repressed or suppressed, especially of emotions or impulses.
- He punched his pillow and screamed at the top of his lungs about all the pent-up frustrations from the day.
- It was that kind of night, full of anxiety and drama and plenty of danger, until, finally, Steven Gerrard made sure all the pent-up emotion could be released.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。