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If you perspire, parts of your body become wet, especially because you are hot or you have been doing hard work. You can also perspire a little from worry, even when the room is not hot. Face, hands, back, and under the arms are the usual places. This is the more formal verb for sweat. A doctor or a textbook may say you may perspire during exercise; a friend will say you’re sweating. Though actually, both are true of the same body. Use perspire when you want to sound careful or polite; use sweat when you want to sound like a real person in the room.
流汗、出汗（比 sweat 正式一點）
組成From French perspirer and Latin perspīrō: per (through) + spīrō (I breathe). The idea is the body “breathing out” through the skin. The same breathe-root sits in spirit.
同家族的字
- perspirationthe noun: the wet that appears when you perspire
- spiritsame Latin root for breathing
- expireex- + spirare, to breathe out
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
perspireverb/pəˈspaɪə(ɹ)/
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To emit (sweat or perspiration) through the skin's pores.
- I was perspiring freely after running the marathon.
- He lists forty reasons, mainly metaphorical, why Christ perspired blood, and his peroration takes twenty-two pages in print.
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To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin.
- A fluid perspires.
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rareTo cause (someone) to sweat.
- Outside his window a long, humid summer, the first hot season of the third millennium, baked and perspired.
- We shook hands, he looked surprised to see me topless. I stimulated his mind. ¶ “Nice to meet you. My workout jogging perspired me a lot, so I removed the T-shirt.”
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。