You can think of transpire as something passing out through a surface that looks closed. A leaf appears solid, but water is quietly moving up through the plant and out into the air through holes too small to see. Nothing is pushed and nothing is announced; the thing inside simply works its way to the outside. The word carries that same quiet leaking when it is used about facts, and it is still there, , when it is used about events.
From the word’s history
The word came into English from French, and behind it stand Latin trans (across) and spirare (to breathe) — literally to breathe through. The plant sense is the picture almost unchanged. The become known sense came in from French alongside it, and the happen sense probably grew out of that inside English.
這個字從法文借進英文，後面站著拉丁文的 trans（穿過）和 spirare（呼吸），字面就是「透過去呼吸」。植物的用法幾乎原封不動保留了這個畫面。「變成大家知道的事」這個意思是跟著法文一起進來的；而「發生」的用法，字典認為很可能是在英文裡從前者長出來的。
Wiktionary entry for transpire (kaikki extract 3f6f69a190036ae4): 「Borrowed from Middle French transpirer, from Medieval Latin transpirare (to breathe through), from Latin trans (across) spirare (to breathe). The sense 'to become known' is also present in French, while the sense 'to happen' is no...
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