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单词 transpire
释义

transpire

/tranˈspʌɪə / /trɑːnˈspʌɪə/
verb [no object]
1 [with clause] (usually it transpires) (Of a secret or something unknown) come to be known; be revealed: it transpired that millions of dollars of debt had been hidden in a complex web of transactions...
  • During questioning, it transpired that the US Secret Service would continue providing protection services to the twins.
  • And when the facts emerged and it transpired that Michael had nothing to do with any of it - people still preferred to believe the lie.
  • So while rueing the fact that we are not in the right business to make lots of money it transpired that none of us had chosen the field we were working in but had, by various means, fallen into it.

Synonyms

become known, become apparent, be revealed, be disclosed, come to light, emerge, come out, get out, be discovered, be uncovered, materialize, leak out, turn out, be made public
1.1Prove to be the case: as it transpired, he was right
1.2Occur; happen: I’m going to find out exactly what transpired...
  • More than a quarter of a century has now transpired since his election.
  • And so you can imagine his feeling the next day when the events transpired.
  • Then, when the actual event transpires, things go in a refreshingly unanticipated manner.

Synonyms

happen, occur, take place, come about, come to pass, crop up, turn up, arise, chance, ensue, befall, be realized, take shape;
pan out, end up
2 Botany (Of a plant or leaf) give off water vapour through the stomata: a cactus does not transpire as freely as most plants [with object]: moisture is transpired from plants much more quickly than is realized...
  • As the flowers transpire, water evaporates and is trapped at the roof of the bricks.
  • Throughout most of the day, when the plant is transpiring, these vessels will contain water under substantial hydraulic tension.
  • The same cycle was found in plants transpiring in ambient conditions and where transpiration was greatly reduced.

Usage

The standard general sense of transpire is ‘come to be known’ (as in it transpired that millions of dollars of debt had been hidden in a complex web of transactions). From this, a looser sense has developed, meaning ‘happen or occur’ (I’m going to find out exactly what transpired). This looser sense, first recorded in US English towards the end of the 18th century, is criticized for being jargon, an unnecessarily long word used where occur and happen would do just as well. The newer sense is very common, however, accounting for around half of the citations for transpire in the Oxford English Corpus.

Derivatives

transpiration

/transpɪˈreɪʃ(ə)n / /trɑːnspɪˈreɪʃ(ə)n/ nounsense 2. ...
  • Stem xylem may be estimated from of leaves which have been covered to prevent transpiration and allowing the equilibration in between the leaf and stem xylem.
  • Higher transpiration not only leads to higher photosynthetic rates, but also keeps the leaf surface cool especially under hot conditions.
  • Their high rates of transpiration and photosynthesis depend upon ample soil moisture, for example.

transpirable

adjective

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'emit as vapour through the surface'): from French transpirer or medieval Latin transpirare, from Latin trans- 'through' + spirare 'breathe'. Sense 1 (mid 18th century) is a figurative use comparable with ‘leak out’.

  • spirit from Middle English:

    Our word spirit is based on Latin spiritus ‘breath or spirit’, from spirare ‘to breathe’—the ancient Romans believed that the human soul had been ‘breathed’ into the body—the image is the same as ‘the breath of life’. The sense ‘strong distilled alcoholic drink’ comes from the use in alchemy of spirit to mean ‘a liquid essence extracted from some substance’. People sometimes say the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak when they have good intentions but yield to temptation and fail to live up to them. The source is the New Testament, where Jesus uses the phrase after finding his disciples asleep in the Garden of Gethsemane despite telling them that they should stay awake. Spirare forms the basis of numerous English words including aspire (mid 16th century) from adspirare ‘to breath upon, seek to reach’; conspire (Late Middle English) from conspirare ‘to breath together, agree’; expire (late 16th century) ‘to breath out’; inspire (Late Middle English) ‘breath into’ from the idea that a divine or outside power has inspired you; and perspire (mid 17th century) ‘to breath through’; and transpire (Late Middle English) ‘breath across. In English spirit was shortened to sprite (Middle English) which in turn developed sprightly (late 16th century).

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