1(of a material or article) allowing light to pass through so that objects behind can be distinctly seen.

清澈的海水。

1. 1.1 Easy to perceive or detect.
   易察觉的，易看出的
   the residents will see through any transparent attempt to buy their votes

   居民会看穿任何明显的拉票企图。

   the meaning of the poem is by no means transparent

   这首诗的蕴义绝不浅显。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The Army's inspector general report is a transparent attempt at damage control.
   • We assumed that he could see right through the fairly transparent seduction attempts that people were laying in front of him practically every five minutes.
   • This is a pretty transparent attempt to parrot the administration line that this is nothing more than another beltway tempest in a teapot.
   • They publish and broadcast fluffy, weak, and uncritical stories in a transparent attempt to ingratiate themselves to communities.
   • This was a transparent attempt on her part to increase her equalization payment.
   • Again, no rational person could view such transparent nonsense as genuine apologies.
   • In a transparent attempt to defuse the explosive anger that swept the Arab world, they promised to hold those responsible accountable.
   • Despite his transparent attempt to slip this out unnoticed, he has to explain why he apparently broke the law.
   • Its elections a few months ago were a sham, a transparent attempt to provide a democratic cloak for a body which is anything but democratic.
   • This was a transparent attempt to prove his toughness on crime.
   • Too few examine the transparent social conditions that conspire to make them the easiest targets for murder.
   • He charged that the government had reversed itself in a transparent attempt to get rid of him.
   • His chances of career survival are made bleaker by his transparent and clumsy attempts to turn himself into the victim.
   • Looks like that last-ditch and blatantly transparent attempt at a smear campaign didn't work at all.
   • The deal included modest increases in pension benefits, a transparent attempt to win support from older and higher-seniority longshoremen at the expense of the work force as a whole.
   • His frantic attempts, transparent and pathetic, to remould himself into something he is not compromised his dignity.
   • The transparent attempts to come across as wise and selfless only increase my distaste for this woman.
   • The entire ad is built around an entirely intentional and fairly transparent attempt to deceive viewers.
   • It's a fairly transparent attempt by the Prime Minister to avoid scrutiny and further revealing of the truth whilst trying to appear not to be doing so.

   Synonyms

   obvious, explicit, unambiguous, unequivocal, clear, lucid, straightforward, plain, plain as the nose on your face, as plain as the nose on your face, apparent, unmistakable, manifest, conspicuous, patent, indisputable, self-evident

   blatant, flagrant, obvious, patent, manifest, undisguised, unconcealed, barefaced, glaring, shameless, brazen, bold, unmistakable, clear, plain, visible, noticeable, recognizable, distinct, evident, apparent, perceptible, discernible, palpable
2. 1.2 Having thoughts, feelings, or motives that are easily perceived.
   （思想，情感，动机）易被人所知的
   you'd be no good at poker—you're too transparent

   你扑克牌打得不会很好——你太容易被别人看出心思了。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • We need to release our fears, to be open and transparent.
   • We want to be open and transparent about everything.
   • His observations underscored my basic conviction that broad-based prosperity is only created in an open, transparent society where things are done according to the rule of law.
   • It is very open and transparent and we are held up in Europe as an example of good practice.
   • Some of it is due to the fact that we have more open and transparent societies and thus discovery of abuses is easier.
   • They urged the government to properly consider public emotions over this high-attention case, and they said that the best strategy is to be open and transparent.
   • Now I don't think anything can be more open, transparent and reasonable
   • ‘The bilateral interactions and exchanges between the two countries have been sound, open and transparent,’ he said.
   • It is a broad issue, first of all, about culture, about having an open and transparent culture, and about changing that culture.
   • It has not been as transparent and as open as promised.
   • Well, I've made my point of view very clear, very open, very transparent and on the record and now it is up to him to answer those questions.
   • Essentially, the conference founders are perfectly transparent and open about their perspectives, so I have only admiration for them in that regard.
   • Of course we understand that, by reason of its stewardship of the nation's security, the MoD cannot always be as open and transparent in its dealings as other government departments.
   • It is genuinely open, transparent and accessible.
   • If the government wants to introduce identity cards let it be through open and transparent discussion and ultimately through the ballot box.
   • You decided to become transparent, Western, open, et cetera.
   • ‘In terms of being open, democratic or transparent, it has totally failed in that regard,’ he said.
   • But it is too pat, and though he may joke about such transparent, easily reduced motivations, he clings too strongly to them.
3. 1.3 (of an organization or its activities) open to public scrutiny.
   （机构或其活动）受公众监督的；透明的
   if you had transparent government procurement, corruption would go away

   如果你们的政府采购透明，就不会有腐败。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Although there are good reasons for that protection, it needs to be properly balanced with a transparent process for public complaint.
   • The process by which products are selected needs to be open and transparent, not carried out behind closed doors.
   • ‘I am satisfied because the winner was chosen in a completely open and transparent procedure,’ he said.
   • If the companies decided that the Government was not playing a fair game with them, and felt that there was no open, fair and transparent procedure, they would go somewhere else, he said.
   • But unless I'm mistaken, the invitation itself wasn't made as a result of a transparent process, with public comments.
   • It will be done in a competitive and transparent way.
   • Have exhaustive hearings and do all of that so it's open and transparent, and everybody can participate in it.
   • But that role in turn has to be carried out in a fully accountable and transparent way.
   • The council had taken a decision on the gas in the best interests of the county and it was done in an open, frank, professional and transparent way.
   • I submit that they have never demonstrated the existence of such a machine in an open and transparent way.
   • The rules provide a framework for public competition; ensuring commercial leasing is a fair, open, impartial and transparent process.
   • Indeed, public auctions of the items would be the fairest and most transparent manner to sell the goods.
   • I believe that gives the public some certainty that this is an open, transparent process.
   • The best candidate won in a fully transparent procedure, she said.
   • In a transparent organization, the right vendor can reach the right person.
   • States should also take steps to ensure that any deprivation of life is fully investigated in an open and transparent way.
   • They received public money yet failed to be accountable or transparent for their activities.
   • The auto makers complain your organization isn't transparent.
   • However, so long as such activities are open and transparent, they will be subject to public scrutiny.

   Synonyms

   frank, open, candid, honest, direct, forthright, unreserved, plain-spoken, straight, straightforward, ingenuous, innocent, guileless, simple, artless
4. 1.4Physics Transmitting heat or other electromagnetic rays without distortion.
   〔物理〕可穿透的；（热，电磁波）可通过的
   Example sentencesExamples

   • Although the primordial plasma became transparent to photons after the universe cooled, the photons did not travel unhindered afterwards.
   • Both are mostly transparent to sunlight and are heated in similar ways - largely by infrared radiation that emanates from their surfaces.
   • A first planar electrode layer being transparent is disposed on an inner surface of the first substrate.
   • Since the disk is practically not absorbing - that is, transparent for fluorescent radiation - we don't encounter the problem.
   • Also, the paint can be transparent to some of the infrared power and nearby objects may ‘feel’ the heat.
   • The tracers do not influence the stream, they drift together with the flow, but the tracers are not transparent for irradiation.
5. 1.5Computing (of a process or interface) functioning without the user being aware of its presence.
   〔计算机〕（过程，界面）透明的
   Example sentencesExamples

   • For IT to accept automation, it must be transparent to users and downstream applications.
   • Furthermore, they are completely transparent to existing network architectures and management systems.
   • When the server is configured to handle a page redirection, the process is transparent to the user and causes no problems.
   • The process is transparent to the user, who clicks on a link on the host site and is transported to a shopping site bearing the original site's branding.
   • To the user this process is transparent, only the CPU knows in what order the instructions were actually executed.