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perspiring

/per-spahyuhr/US // pərˈspaɪər //UK // (pəˈspaɪə) //

汗流浃背,流汗,流汗的,出汗

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v.无主动词 verb
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    per·spired, per·spir·ing.

    • : to secrete a salty, watery fluid from the sweat glands of the skin, especially when very warm as a result of strenuous exertion; sweat.
v.有主动词 verb
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    per·spired, per·spir·ing.

    • : to emit through pores; exude.

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Examples

  • Your feet might not get as drenched as your head, but they will perspire enough to require shoes that will offset the wet.

  • Sometimes, when perspiring heavily and feeling warm Breman would fear the worst.

  • But Lucy had noted, out of the corner of her watchful eye, the arrival of Miss Grains, indignant and perspiring.

  • He bowed and sat down, white and perspiring at every pore, and hardly knowing to what he had committed himself.

  • So when he was not perspiring over a spade or eating or sleeping he wandered about the place in his most restless mood.

  • The transference of it from ship to shore and from shore to ship is a matter of awful noise and perspiring confusion.

  • It was this latter that particularly angered Harvey, as he paused, perspiring, from his work.