| 单词 | sweat |
| 释义 | verb | noun sweatsweat1 /swɛt/ ●●● verb 1LIQUID FROM SKIN [intransitive] science, biology to have liquid coming out through your skin, especially because you are hot, frightened, or exercising: It’s so hot, I can’t stop sweating. All the stress was making her sweat. You’re sweating like a pig (=sweating a lot).2WORK [intransitive] informal to work hard: They sweated and saved for ten years to buy a house.sweat over He’d sweated over the plans for six months. Many people have sweated blood (=worked very hard) to build up the company.3WORRY [intransitive] informal to be anxious, nervous, or worried about something: Let them sweat – I’ll make my decision tomorrow. We were sweating bullets (=worrying) until we found out we wouldn’t lose our jobs.4PRODUCE LIQUID [intransitive] if something such as a container with a liquid in it or cheese sweats, liquid from the air or from inside it appears on its surface5don’t sweat it spoken used to tell someone not to worry about something6don’t sweat the small stuff spoken used to tell someone not to worry about unimportant thingssweat something ↔ off phrasal verb to lose weight by sweating: I sweated off a few pounds in the steam room.sweat something ↔ out phrasal verb1to get rid of an illness or something bad in your body by making yourself sweat a lot: I was in bed for two days sweating out a fever.2to worry while you wait for something to happen: We had to sweat it out for a few hours until the test results came back.3to continue something until it is finished, even though it is difficult4sweat it out to do hard physical exercisesweat something out of somebody phrasal verb informal to find out information from someone by asking lots of questions and threatening him or her verb | noun sweatsweat2 ●●● noun 1LIQUID ON SKIN [singular, uncountable] science, biology liquid that comes out through your skin when you are hot, frightened, or exercising SYN perspiration: Sweat was pouring down his face. The men were dripping with sweat after an hour’s work.break (into) a sweat/break out in a sweat (=start sweating) It was cold, but I was working up a sweat.2CLOTHES sweats [plural] informal a sweat suit or sweat pants3WORK [singular] hard work, especially when it is boring or difficult: It’ll take a lot of sweat to make this work.4a (cold) sweat the action of sweating because you are nervous or frightened: I woke up from the nightmare in a cold sweat.5no sweat spoken used to say that you can do something easily: I’ll finish this by tomorrow, no sweat.6the sweat of somebody’s brow literary the hard effort that someone has made in his or her work7in/into a sweat feeling or beginning to feel very nervous or worried about something: get/break into a sweat It’s not worth getting into a sweat about.8ILLNESS (the) sweats [plural] the action of sweating because you are sick: Do you suffer from night sweats (=sweating while you sleep)? |
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