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secreted

/si-kreet/US // sɪˈkrit //UK // (sɪˈkriːt) //

分泌的,分秘的,分分泌的,分泌

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    se·cret·ed, se·cret·ing.

    • : to discharge, generate, or release by the process of secretion.

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Examples

  • The nectar is a sugary snack that wild cotton secretes whenever it’s eaten in exchange for the bodyguard services of particularly aggressive ant species.

  • After about a month, the cells would begin to secrete a substance similar to breast milk.

  • Upward of 85 percent of the kids who ate batteries ingested the button variety, which tend to be easy to fit in one’s mouth but can lodge in a kid’s throat and secrete toxic compounds.

  • To defend itself, this toad secretes a poison from glands on its neck and back.

  • Beyond the difficulties created by their sheer numbers and diversity, bacteria constantly secrete compounds that change the environment both for them and for everything around them.

  • President Rhee resigned soon thereafter and was secreted out of the country to Hawaii by the American CIA.

  • Citing two specific studies, the authors suggest that a “high concentration of the virus is secreted on the skin of the dead.”

  • Leptin is a hormone secreted by fat cells that is key to maintaining energy balance in the body.

  • Jeanne's body, secreted away, was only later reburied next to his, in Père Lachaise.

  • The anthrax powder is secreted in a small watertight container that easily passes inspection at JFK.

  • It is secreted by the gastric glands, and is transformed into pepsin by the action of a free acid.

  • Human milk is sterile when secreted, but derives a few bacteria from the lacteal ducts.

  • Secreted in the fastnesses of the hills, and tenderly cared for by his wife, he nursed his wounds and thirsted for revenge.

  • Young Glory assisted in covering Dan up, and this done, he threw off the hat and cloak he was wearing, and secreted them.

  • It was a wonderful talisman, secreted—I fancied in the dream—by the goddess of the Social Revolution.