sensitize

英 [ˈsensətaɪz]

美 [ˈsensətaɪz]

v.  使敏感(尤指对问题或不好的事); 使意识到; 使(对…)过敏

过去分词：sensitized　过去式：sensitized　现在分词：sensitizing　第三人称单数：sensitizes　

GRE

BNC.35036 / COCA.19314

牛津词典

verb

• 使敏感（尤指对问题或不好的事）；使意识到
  to make sb/sth more aware of sth, especially a problem or sth bad
  1. People are becoming more sensitized to the dangers threatening the environment.
     人们对危害环境的各种因素有越来越强的意识。
• 使（对…）过敏
  to make sb/sth sensitive to physical or chemical changes, or to a particular substance

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 sensitise


• VERB 使敏感;使意识到
  If yousensitizepeopletoa particular problem or situation, you make them aware of it.
  1. It seems important to sensitize people to the fact that depression is more than the blues...
     让人们意识到抑郁症不仅仅是心情忧郁，这点似乎很重要。
  2. How many judges in our male-dominated courts are sensitized to women's issues?
     在男性占主导地位的法庭上，有多少法官对妇女问题是比较敏感的呢？
• VERB 使对…有反应;使敏化;使过敏
  If a substanceis sensitized tosomething such as light or touch, it is made sensitive to it.
  1. Skin is easily irritated, chapped, chafed, and sensitized.
     皮肤很容易受到刺激、发生皴裂、擦得红肿和出现过敏。
  2. ...sensitised nerve endings.
     变得敏感的神经末梢

英英释义

verb

• make sensitive or aware
  1. He was not sensitized to her emotional needs
  Synonym:sensitisesensifysensibilizesensibilise
• make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion
  1. sensitize the photographic film
  Synonym:sensitise
• make sensitive to a drug or allergen
  1. Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen
  Synonym:sensitise
• cause to sense
  1. She sensitized me with respect to gender differences in this traditional male-dominated society
  2. My tongue became sensitized to good wine
  Synonym:sensitise

双语例句

• It seems important to sensitize people to the fact that depression is more than the blues
  让人们意识到抑郁症不仅仅是心情忧郁，这点似乎很重要。
• The purpose of the study is to help both teachers and learners alike to sensitize to the importance of self-regulated learning.
  本文的研究目的是帮助教师和学生进一步认识到自主学习在语言学习过程中的重要性。
• In this dissertation, porphyrins are used to sensitize TiO2 nanoparticles to enhance their visible light responses, and to improve their visible light photocatalytic activity for the degradation of organic pollutes and photocatalytic hydrogen evolution form water reduction.
  为了拓宽TiO2光催化剂的光响应范围，本文采用负载卟啉的方法对二氧化钛纳米粒子进行改性以增强它们对可见光的响应，提高其可见光光催化降解有机污染物和光催化还原水析氢的效率。
• However, RAGE knock down did not sensitize tumor to doxorubicin.
  然而，RAGE敲低并不能提高肿瘤对阿霉素的敏感性。
• Methods We had investigated the clinical features of 80 children who had drug eruptions, and their drug eruption types and sensitize drug kinds.
  方法分析80例药疹患儿的临床特点、药疹类型及致敏药物的种类。
• This algorithm describes a very short test code sequence which can sensitize multiple faults to the output of parity checkers in the network.
  该算法利用我们先前建立的黑盒等效测试法设计出一个很短的测试序列，将网络中的多重故障直接敏化到最近的奇偶校验器。
• It was found that borax and aluminium ion can markedly sensitize the fluorescence of Aesculetin. 4.
  发现硼砂和铝离子对秦皮乙素有明显的荧光增敏作用。
• The SL approach may sensitize the malignant cell to drugs aimed at secondary molecular targets.
  SL治疗法可以驱使恶性肿瘤细胞对次级靶位点的蛋白敏感。
• The dye Rhodamine B and coumarin mixture is used to sensitize nanocrystalline porous films.
  采用罗丹明-B与香豆素混合的方法，配制成敏化剂修饰纳米晶薄膜。
• How many judges in our male-dominated courts are sensitized to women's issues?
  在男性占主导地位的法庭上，有多少法官对妇女问题是比较敏感的呢？