英语词汇“susceptible”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	susceptible
释义	sus·cep·ti·ble I. \səˈseptəbəl\ adjective Etymology: Late Latin susceptibilis, from Latin susceptus (past participle of suscipere to take up, undertake, admit, from sus- — variant of sub- up — + -cipere, from capere to take) + -ibilis -ible — more at sub-, heave 1. : of such a nature, character, or constitution as to admit or permit : capable of submitting successfully to an action, process, or operation — used with of or to followed by an action noun or a verbal noun < a theory susceptible of proof > < this problem is … susceptible to solution — M.V.Vishniak > < impulses … susceptible of control — Abram Kardiner > < several … contributors have initials susceptible of being mistaken for mine — Elinor Wylie > 2. a. : having such a constitution or temperament as to be open, subject, or unresistant to some stimulus, influence, or agency : easily influenced or affected through some trait (as weakness, pliability, sensitiveness, naïveté, or amorousness) — usually used with to < the snow was damp and susceptible to clear impression — W.H.Wright > < a city susceptible to air attack > < he became susceptible to the influences of the sea — Times Literary Supplement > < he is still susceptible, but not excessively so, to the attractions of other women — Anthony Quinton > < the foibles of the health faddists are particularly susceptible to satire — Arthur Knight > < even the most autocratic of industries is in some degree susceptible to public opinion — S.H.Adams > b. (1) : having little resistance to a specific infectious disease : capable of being infected (2) : predisposed to develop a noninfectious disease < susceptible to diabetes > (3) : abnormally reactive to various drugs c. : capable of affecting as much as being affected, of conceiving, feeling, arousing, or bringing forth < the subject is hardly susceptible of high poetry — Richard Garnett †1906 > 3. : easily influenced, affected, or moved : impressionable, responsive < at 32,500 feet susceptible individuals may develop symptoms after a few minutes — H.G.Armstrong > < with all the fervency of her palpitant and susceptible twelve years, she was infatuated with a man thirty years her senior — S.H.Adams > < landslides can be prevented by proper ditch drainage of susceptible areas — American Guide Series: Tennessee > < far from a rake, though of a warm and susceptible temperament — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > Synonyms: see liable II. noun (-s) : one who is susceptible (as to a disease) < the usual classification of persons into susceptibles and immunes is a purely artificial and inexact one — G.W.Anderson & Margaret Arnstein >
随便看	unobjective unobligated unobliging unobliterated unobnoxious unobscured unobservable unobservance unobservant unobservantly unobserved unobservedly unobserving unobstinate unobstructed unobstructedly unobstructedness unobtainable unobtrusive unobtrusively unobtrusiveness unobvious unoccupancy unoccupied unoffended

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