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单词 transpire
释义 tran·spire
\tranzˈpī(ə)r, traan-, -n(t)ˈsp-, -īə\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle French transpirer, from Latin trans- + spirare to breathe — more at spirit
transitive verb
1. : to cause (as a gas or liquid) to pass through a tissue or substance or its pores or interstices
2. : to excrete or give off (as moisture or vapor) through the skin, a membrane, or living cells : perspire, exude, exhale
intransitive verb
1. : to emit moisture, vapor, or perfume; specifically : to give off or exude watery vapor from the surfaces of leaves or other parts
 < a plant transpires more freely on a hot dry day >
2. : to pass out or escape in the form of a vapor from a living body
 < moisture transpires through the skin >
3.
 a. : to become known or apparent : develop
  < it transpired that he had still been sitting … when the bomb struck — C.D.Lewis >
  < it soon transpired that there were two … conceptions of this problem — C.H.Malik >
  < only good faculties, it transpired, were inherited — Walter Lippmann >
 b. : to be revealed : leak out : come to light
  < had to wait until 1934 for the secret to transpire — E.C.Wagenknecht >
  < it had just transpired that he had left gaming debts behind him — Jane Austen >
4. : to come to pass : happen, occur
 < a course of events which transpire with unbelievable rapidity — H.G.Moseley >
 < I gave an honest account of what transpired — J.A.Michener >
 < more things transpire on a racetrack than are chronicled in the newspapers — Gerald Beaumont >
Synonyms: see happen
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