perspire

动词 v.
/pəˈspaɪə(ɹ)/    /pɚˈspaɪɹ/|/pɚˈspaɪɚ/|/pəˈspɑɪə(ɹ)/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores. ambitransitive
    — I was perspiring freely after running the marathon.
  2. To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin. intransitive
    — A fluid perspires.
  3. To cause (someone) to sweat. ambitransitive,rare
    — Outside his window a long, humid summer, the first hot season of the third millennium, baked and perspired.

词形变化

perspires present,singular,third-person perspiring participle,present perspired participle,past perspired past

词源

Borrowed from Middle French perspirer and its source Latin perspīrō (“to breathe everywhere, blow constantly”), from per (“through”) + spīrō (“to breathe”); see spirit.
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