- [uncountable]
the quality of something, such as a situation or an argument, that makes it easy to understand 易懂；清楚；透明度 - [uncountable]
the quality of something, such as glass, that allows you to see through it 透明；透明性 - (also informal tranny)[countable]
a picture printed on a piece of film, usually in a frame, that can be shown on a screen by shining light through the film 幻灯片；透明正片 an overhead transparency (= used with an overhead projector) 高射投影透明正片
- [uncountable]
the quality in something, such as an excuse or a lie, that allows somebody to see the truth easily 显而易见；一目了然
Word Originlate 16th cent. (as a general term denoting a transparent object): from medieval Latin transparentia, from transparent- ‘shining through’, from Latin transparere, from trans- ‘through’ + parere ‘appear’.