transpire
/trænˈspaɪə(r)/verb
no obj.
1
- with clause（一般作it transpires）(of a secret or something unknown) come to be known; be revealed（秘密等）被人知道, 被泄漏：
it transpired that Mark had been baptized a Catholic.
马克受洗成为天主教徒的秘密已为人所知。
1.1
- prove to be the case被证实：
as it transpired, he was right.
结果, 他是正确的。
1.2
- occur; happen发生, 出现：
I'm going to find out exactly what transpired.
我会查出究竟发生了什么事。
2
- Botany (of a plant or leaf) give off water vapour through the stomata【植】（植物或其叶片）蒸腾, 散发。
USAGE
The standard general sense of transpire is 'come to be known' （as in it transpired that Mark had been baptized a Catholic）. From this， a looser sense has developed， meaning 'happen or occur' （I'm going to find out exactly what transpired）. This looser sense， first recorded in US English towards the end of the 18th century and listed in US dictionaries from the 19th century， is criticized for being jargon， an unnecessarily long word used where occur and happen would do just as well. In practice the two senses are indistinguishable in many contexts. The newer sense is common， though， and accounts for around 25 per cent of citations for transpire on the Oxford Reading Programme.
派生词
transpiration
noun （限义项2）词源
late Middle English （in the sense 'emit as vapour through the surface'）： from French transpirer or medieval Latin transpirare, from Latin trans- 'through' + spirare 'breathe'. Sense 1 （mid 18th cent.） is a figurative use comparable with 'leak out'.