n. 汗, 汗水, 水珠, 焦急

vi. 出汗, 渗出, 冒出水气, 结水珠, 烦恼, 懊恼

vt. 使出汗, 流出, 榨出, 使汗流浃背

[医] 汗

[经] 榨取(工人等的)血汗

Sweat \Sweat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sweat} or {Sweated} (Obs.
{Swat}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sweating}.] [OE. sweten, AS.
sw[ae]tan, fr. sw[=a]t, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS.
sw[=e]t, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti,
sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to
sweat, Gr. ?, ?, sweat, ? to sweat, Skr. sv[=e]da sweat, svid
to sweat. [root]178. Cf. {Exude}, {Sudary}, {Sudorific}.]
1. To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin;
to perspire. --Shak.

2. Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.

He 'd have the poets sweat. --Waller.

3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.


Sweat \Sweat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sweat} or {Sweated} (Obs.
{Swat}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Sweating}.] [OE. sweten, AS.
sw[ae]tan, fr. sw[=a]t, n., sweat; akin to OFries. & OS.
sw[=e]t, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti,
sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to
sweat, Gr. ?, ?, sweat, ? to sweat, Skr. sv[=e]da sweat, svid
to sweat. [root]178. Cf. {Exude}, {Sudary}, {Sudorific}.]
1. To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin;
to perspire. --Shak.

2. Fig.: To perspire in toil; to work hard; to drudge.

He 'd have the poets sweat. --Waller.

3. To emit moisture, as green plants in a heap.


Sweat \Sweat\, n. [Cf. OE. swot, AS. sw[=a]t. See {Sweat}, v.
i.]
1. (Physiol.) The fluid which is excreted from the skin of an
animal; the fluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a
transparent, colorless, acid liquid with a peculiar odor,
containing some fatty acids and mineral matter;
perspiration. See {Perspiration}.

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.
--Gen. iii.
19.

2. The act of sweating; or the state of one who sweats;
hence, labor; toil; drudgery. --Shak.

3. Moisture issuing from any substance; as, the sweat of hay
or grain in a mow or stack. --Mortimer.

4. The sweating sickness. [Obs.] --Holinshed.

5. (Man.) A short run by a race horse in exercise.

{Sweat box} (Naut.), a small closet in which refractory men
are confined.

{Sweat glands} (Anat.), sudoriferous glands. See under
{Sudoriferous}.

{sweat suit} A suit comprising a top and trousers, having
full arms and legs, used while performing physical
exercises, esp. out-of-doors.

{Sweat equity} The rights to a portion of ownership or
profit, hypothetically owned by a worker who participated
in producing a product, such as in improving a piece of
real estate.


Sweat \Sweat\, v. t.
1. To cause to excrete moisture from the skin; to cause to
perspire; as, his physicians attempted to sweat him by
most powerful sudorifics.

2. To emit or suffer to flow from the pores; to exude.

It made her not a drop for sweat. --Chaucer.

With exercise she sweat ill humors out. --Dryden.

3. To unite by heating, after the application of soldier.

4. To get something advantageous, as money, property, or
labor from (any one), by exaction or oppression; as, to
sweat a spendthrift; to sweat laborers. [Colloq.]

{To sweat coin}, to remove a portion of a piece of coin, as
by shaking it with others in a bag, so that the friction
wears off a small quantity of the metal.

The only use of it [money] which is interdicted is
to put it in circulation again after having
diminished its weight by ``sweating'', or otherwise,
because the quantity of metal contains is no longer
consistent with its impression. --R. Cobden.