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小词详解 | secrete
secrete 英 [sɪˈkriːt] 美 [sɪˈkriːt]
And Wang Xin of Nankai University, in Tianjin, China, thinks he has one. It relies on the reaction of soil bacteria to molecules secreted by plant roots.
天津南开大学的王鑫认为自己已经找到了解决之道。他的方法依据的是土壤细菌对作物根系分泌物的反应。
——《经济学人》Every night, about two to three hours before you conk out, your brain starts to secrete melatonin in response to darkness.
每天晚上在你睡着前两三个小时,你的大脑便对黑暗做出反应,开始分泌褪黑素。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] (指细胞、腺体或器官)产生和排出(物质)
唾液是由嘴中或嘴部周围的腺体分泌的一种液体。
Saliva is a liquid secreted by glands in or near the mouth.
一小瓶白兰地藏在他的皮箱内衬中。
A brandy miniature was secreted in the lining of his case.她鬼鬼祟祟地往身后扫了一眼,然后把枪藏在了竹丛里。
With a furtive glance over her shoulder, she secreted the gun in the bamboo thicket.
The search succeeds. In the bedroll of Musa the old bearer: a silver spittoon. Wrapped in his puny bundle of clothes: gold coins, a silver samovar. Secreted under his charpoy bed: a missing tea-service.
搜查获得了成功。在老仆人穆萨的铺盖卷里找到了银痰盂,金币和一个银茶炊包在他那个小衣服包里,一套丢失的茶具藏在他的吊床底下。
ooze: (of a fluid) slowly trickle or seep out of something; flow in a very gradual way excrete: (of a living organism or cell) separate and expel as waste (a substance, especially a product of metabolism) emit: produce and discharge (something, especially gas or radiation)