| 单词 | perspire |
|---|---|
| 音标 | [pəs'paiə] |
| 解释 | v.流汗 |
| 红宝书 | 无 |
| 字源 | perspire (v.) 1640s, "to evaporate through the pores," a back-formation from perspiration and in part from Latin perspirare "to breathe, to blow constantly" (see perspiration). Meaning "to sweat" is a polite usage attested from 1725. Medical men tried to maintain a distinction between "sensible" (sweat) and "insensible" perspiration: [I]t is sufficient for common use to observe, that perspiration is that insensible discharge of vapour from the whole surface of the body and the lungs which is constantly going on in a healthy state; that it is always natural and always salutary; that sweat, on the contrary, is an evacuation, which never appears without some uncommon effort, or some disease to the system, that it weakens and relaxes, and is so far from coinciding with perspiration, that it obstructs and checks it. [Charles White, "A Treatise on the Management of Pregnant and Lying-in Women," London, 1791] Related: Perspired; perspiring. |
| 不择手段背单词 | 无 |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】per 通过,穿过 + spir 气,呼吸,通过排气,出汗 【相关】aspire (志气, spirit), conspire(共谋,合用一个鼻孔出气), despair 没了气,绝望,expire(出气)呼气,没气,死亡,inspire in+spire 打气,鼓舞,perspire 出汗,respire(反复气,呼吸),suspire(深吸,呼一气) 叹气, transpire(pass off vaporous material) 蒸发,发生 |
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