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sweating

/swet/US // swɛt //UK // (swɛt) //

流汗,出汗,汗水,出汗了

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v.无主动词 verb
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    sweat or sweat·ed, sweat·ing.

    • : to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
    • : to exude moisture, as green plants piled in a heap or cheese.
    • : to gather moisture from the surrounding air by condensation.
    • : to ooze or be exuded.
    • : Informal. to work hard.
    • : Informal. to experience distress, as from anxiety.
    • : to ferment.
v.有主动词 verb
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    sweat or sweat·ed, sweat·ing.

    • : to excrete through the pores of the skin.
    • : to exude in drops or small particles: The drying figs sweat tiny drops of moisture.
    • : to send forth or get rid of with or like perspiration.
    • : to wet or stain with perspiration.
    • : to cause to perspire.
    • : to cause to exude moisture, especially as a step in an industrial drying process: to sweat wood.
    • : to earn, produce, or obtain by hard work.
    • : to cause to lose as by perspiring or hard work: The hard week's work sweated five pounds off him.
    • : to cause, force, or bring pressure on to work hard.
    • : to employ at low wages, for long hours, or under other unfavorable conditions.
    • : to labor with meticulous care over: The manufacturer of this beautiful car has really sweated the details.
    • : Slang. to obtain or extort from someone.to extort money from; fleece.
    • : Slang. to subject to severe questioning; give the third degree to.
    • : Metallurgy. to heat in order to remove a constituent melting at a lower temperature than the alloy as a whole.to heat to melting.to join by heating and pressing together, usually with solder.
    • : to remove bits of metal from by shaking them against one another, as in a bag.Compare clip.
    • : to cause to ferment.
n.名词 noun
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    • : the process of sweating or perspiring.
    • : that which is secreted from sweat glands; perspiration.
    • : a state or a period of sweating.
    • : hard work.
    • : Informal. a state of anxiety or impatience.
    • : a process of inducing sweating or perspiration, or of being sweated, as in medical treatment.
    • : moisture exuded from something or gathered on a surface.
    • : an exuding of moisture, as by a substance.
    • : an inducing of such exudation, as in some industrial process.
    • : a run given to a horse for exercise, as before a race.
    • : sweats, Informal. sweatpants, sweatshirts, sweat suits, or the like.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : Informal. made to be worn for exercise, sports, or other physical activity.made of the absorbent fabric used for such clothes: sweat dresses.of, for, or associated with such clothes: the sweat look in sportswear.
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    • : sweat out, Informal. to await anxiously the outcome of; endure apprehensively: The accused sweated out the jury's deliberation.to work arduously at or toward: The director sweated out a camera angle with the cinematographer.

Phrases

  • sweat blood
  • sweat bullets
  • sweat of one's brow
  • sweat out
  • by the sweat of one's brow
  • in a cold sweat
  • no problem (sweat)

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Examples

  • Gyms operate in close quarters and in environments where you have heavy breathing, sweat and shared equipment — not the mix you want during a pandemic.

  • That’s why getting them to sniff sweat from cotton swabs is probably better, he says.

  • Mateescu and her team have examined skin biopsies and found that relatively large sweat glands allow Brahman to better regulate their internal body temperature.

  • Some devices may one day be powered by electric currents made from your sweat.

  • Using sweat, he points out, lets people harness energy that usually goes to waste.

  • For nearly her entire life Beyoncé has been giving us her blood, sweat, and tears in her career.

  • And how much do you need to sweat to stave off the disease that kills 500,000 people every year?

  • He wipes beads of sweat from his brow, and extends his hand out towards the crowd.

  • Sweat poured from underneath his helmet and down the thin points of his sandy blond hair.

  • I tried to relax too, but I felt my stomach tighten and I began to sweat.

  • A mist came before his eyes, the cold sweat stood upon his ashy face, his limbs failed him, and he sunk upon his knees.

  • These cigars rarely "char" in burning; certainly not, if made of good quality of tobacco and thoroughly sweat.

  • The sweat of death was already on his brow as he reeled sideways, plunging blindly across the uneven tufts of grass.

  • After harvesting, the plants cure rapidly and on account of their small size rarely sweat.

  • His next line—'To grunt and sweat under a weary life'—resembles ll.