vent grievance/ spleen, splenetic, irritability, bad breath, give vent to. “Caprice in Purple and Gold: The Golden Screen”

What do you suppose she’s thinking?

This scene in “Caprice in Purple and Gold: The Golden Screen” overflows with works from American artist James McNeill Whistler’s personal collection of Japanese and Chinese art, from porcelain and lacquer to the painted Japanese screen referenced in the work’s title that, like the walls of our famed Peacock Room, shimmers with applied gold leaf.

Whistler poses his model, Joanna Hiffernan (d. 1886), as an active viewer by having her hold a print from the series “Views of the Sixty-odd Provinces” by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858). Her rapt attention transforms her into a proxy for both the viewer and the artist as discerning connoisseurs who were creating imagined views of East Asia through collected objects.

Explore this work’s connection to our most famous work of art in “Ruffled Feathers: Creating Whistler’s Peacock Room,” now on view in Gallery 11. https://s.si.edu/4cjw8I1

Part of our #AmericanArt collection. #SmithsonianAsianArt

Image: Caprice in Purple and Gold: The Golden Screen, James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), 1864, United States, Oil on wood panel, 50.1 × 68.5 cm (19 3/4 × 27 in), National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Freer Collection, Gift of Charles Lang Freer, F1904.75a

Dozens of players, one island, last man standing wins: welcome to one of the region's most popular video games

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The health agency also listed some side effects, including bad breath, anxiety, dehydration and irritability. Yet people in London do not seem too concerned.該機構還列出了口臭、焦慮、脫水和易怒等副作用。但在倫敦，人們似乎不太在乎。


As a confirmed crab apple who has often been compared to the splenetic Lucy Van Pelt character from Peanuts, I am gratified to learn that should my real spleen ever decide to vent in earnest, the outburst may just help save my life.

Japanese fishermen rally to vent grievance over oil price surge
Xinhua - China TOKYO, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Fishermen around Japan suspended operations Tuesday and some of them rallied to vent grievance over soaring oil prices. ...


Tensions at Siemens AGM as More Corruption Claims Emerge As investors aired their grievances at the Siemens general assembly of shareholders, allegations of corruption continue to emerge.

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譬如說p. 25 "使脾臟發炎"不如 "讓人生氣 壞脾氣" EXCITE SPLEEN

vent (EXPRESS FEELINGS) 
verb [T]
to express a negative emotion in a forceful and often unfair way:
Please don't shout - there's no need to vent your frustration/anger/rage/spleen on me.

vent 
noun
give vent to sth to express a negative emotion in a forceful and often unfair way:
The meeting will be an opportunity for everyone to give vent to their feelings.

Hume give vent to his spleen against Shakespeare.

grievance noun [C or U]
a complaint or a strong feeling that you have been treated unfairly:
A special committee has been appointed to handle prisoners' grievances.
Bill still harbours/nurses a grievance against his employers for not promoting him.
The small amount of compensation is a further source of grievance to the people forced to leave their homes.


spleen

1. 1. A large, highly vascular lymphoid organ, lying in the human body to the left of the stomach below the diaphragm, serving to store blood, disintegrate old blood cells, filter foreign substances from the blood, and produce lymphocytes.
   2. A homologous organ or tissue in other vertebrates.
2. Obsolete. This organ conceived as the seat of emotions or passions.
3. Ill temper: vent one's spleen.
4. Archaic. Melancholy.
5. Obsolete. A whim; a caprice.

n. - 脾臟, 怨恨, 壞脾氣
n. - 脾臓, 腹立ち


splenetic(-ĭ-kəl)
adj.

1. Of or relating to the spleen.
2. Affected or marked by ill humor or irritability.

n.
A person regarded as irritable.

[Late Latin splēnēticus, from Latin splēn, spleen. See spleen.]

splenetic

 音節

sple • net • ic, -i • cal

発音

splinétik, -kəl

[形]

1 ((文))気難しい, 怒りっぽい；意地の悪い.

2 脾臓(ひぞう)の.

━━[名]怒りっぽい［意地の悪い］人.

sple・net・i・cal・ly

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