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transpire

verb
🔊/trænˈspaɪə(r)/
🔊/trænˈspaɪər/
(formal)
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they transpire
🔊/trænˈspaɪə(r)/
🔊/trænˈspaɪər/
he / she / it transpires
🔊/trænˈspaɪəz/
🔊/trænˈspaɪərz/
past simple transpired
🔊/trænˈspaɪəd/
🔊/trænˈspaɪərd/
past participle transpired
🔊/trænˈspaɪəd/
🔊/trænˈspaɪərd/
-ing form transpiring
🔊/trænˈspaɪərɪŋ/
🔊/trænˈspaɪərɪŋ/
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  1. [transitive] (not usually used in the progressive tenses通常不用于进行时) transpire that… 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
    • It transpired that the gang had had a contact inside the bank.据报这伙歹徒在银行里有内应。🔊🔊
    • This story, it later transpired, was untrue.后来得知，此事纯属凭空假造。🔊🔊
  2. [intransitive] to happen发生
    • You're meeting him tomorrow? Let me know what transpires.你明天和他见面吗？把见面的情况告诉我。🔊🔊
  3. [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
    4. 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”.