Transpire
[træn'spaɪə;trɑːn-] or [træn'spaɪɚ]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) give off (water) through the skin.
(verb.) come about, happen, or occur; 'Several important events transpired last week'.
(verb.) come to light; become known; 'It transpired that she had worked as spy in East Germany'.
(verb.) exude water vapor; 'plants transpire'.
(verb.) pass through the tissue or substance or its pores or interstices, as of gas.
整理:华莱士--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration; to exhale.
(v. i.) To evaporate from living cells.
(v. i.) To escape from secrecy; to become public; as, the proceedings of the council soon transpired.
(v. i.) To happen or come to pass; to occur.
(v. t.) To excrete through the skin; to give off in the form of vapor; to exhale; to perspire.
(v. t.) To evaporate (moisture) from living cells.
克劳德整理
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. [1]. Evaporate (through the pores), exhale, pass of in vapor.[2]. Become known, be disclosed, come to light, come out, be made public, get abroad, leak out.[3]. [Common, especially in the U. S., but not well authorized.] Happen, occur, come to pass.
整理:维维安
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Escape, appear, exude
ANT:Lurk, latitat, lie
錄入:万斯
解釋/意思:
v.t. to breathe or pass through the pores of the skin.—v.i. to exhale: to become public to come to light: to occur (a bad use).—adj. Transpīr′able.—n. Transpirā′tion act or process of transpiring; exhalation through the skin.—adj. Transpīr′atory.—n. Trans′piry act of transpiring.
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例句/造句/用法:
- There we may live for a time, and who knows what may transpire to aid us to escape? 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- How is it that events transpire, under your very noses, of which you have no suspicion? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- If the pit I have been speaking of is the right one, a scene transpired there, long ages ago, which is familiar to us all in pictures. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Fanny learnt from her all the particulars which had yet transpired. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Several curious little circumstances transpired as the action proceeded. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Before we go further, sir, I should like an explanation of the events which have just transpired. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- It always and eternally transpires that St. Paul has been to that place, and Pliny has mentioned it. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- We shall see what transpires with our own eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
手打:尼尔