| 英语单词 | secrete |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [sɪ'kriːt] 美 [sɪ'kriːt] |
| 中文释义 | vt.隐藏;隐匿 vt.分泌 |
| 英语例句 | (1) He found the money secreted in a drawer. (2) Squirrels secrete a supply of nuts for winter. (3) He secreted himself to avoid being caught. (4) The kidneys secrete urine. (5) Tears are secreted by an organ under the upper eyelid. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他找到了藏在抽屉里的钱。 (2) 松鼠为准备过冬而藏坚果。 (3) 他为了躲避追捕,隐匿起来了。 (4) 肾脏是分泌尿液的器官。 (5) 眼泪由上眼睑下面的器官分泌。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Secrete is all about secrets. It means both "to hide" and "to release." When you squeeze a lemon, it secretes juice. When you stuff your money in a mattress, you secrete it there. |
| vocabulary扩展 | It's easy to remember that secrete's all about secrets when you see the word secret inside secrete. Imagine the first person who squeezed a lemon and secreted the juice. Probably felt like he'd discovered a secret stash of citrus goodness. If he was greedy, maybe he gathered all the lemons he could find and secreted them away in a box so no one else would learn the secret of the juice-secretion. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]分泌 If part of a plant, animal, or human secretes a liquid, it produces it. [V n]
2 [VERB 动词]隐藏;藏匿 If you secrete something somewhere, you hide it there so that nobody will find it. [V n prep/adv] [LITERARY 文]
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