| 单词 | perspire |
| 释义 | perspire (once / 797 pages) v To perspire is to sweat: to excrete perspiration through the pores in your skin. Whenever little drops of moisture appear on your skin, you're perspiring or sweating. People sweat when they're nervous, when it's hot out, and when they're doing a lot of exercise. If you watch people playing a strenuous sport like basketball, they will be perspiring. Perspiring is one way your body cools itself off, so sweating is a good thing, even though it can make you feel gross. Some animals — like dogs — can't perspire, so it's harder for them to cool off. WORD FAMILYperspire: perspiration, perspired, perspirer, perspires, perspiring+/perspiration: perspirations/perspirer: perspirers USAGE EXAMPLESI perspired and my body shuddered from the pain. Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy S...(2007) The pace of the chants quickened, one man stamped his feet, another wept silently, and after 30 minutes the beloveds were captivated and perspiring. New York Times(Sep 23, 2016) A cartoon in The New Yorker captured it best: A woman sits in her psychiatrist’s office, perspiring in distress. New York Times(Sep 16, 2016) v excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin Syn|Hypo|Hyper sudate, sweat swelter suffer from intense heat egest, eliminate, excrete, pass eliminate from the body |
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