transpire
verb (formal)Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they transpire | |
he / she / it transpires | |
past simple transpired | |
past participle transpired | |
-ing form transpiring |
- [transitive]
(not usually used in the progressive tenses ) transpire that…通常不用于进行时 if it transpires that something has happened or is true, it is known or has been shown to be true 公开;透露;为人所知 - [intransitive]
to happen 发生 - [intransitive, transitive] transpire (something) (
biology )生物 when plants or leaves transpire, water passes out from their surface (植物)水分蒸发,蒸腾
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘emit as vapour through the surface’): from French transpirer or medieval Latin transpirare, from Latin trans- ‘through’ + spirare ‘breathe’. Senses 1 and 2 (mid 18th cent.) are figurative uses comparable with “leak out”.