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

• 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。
• However, many tumors including gastric cancer remain resistant to treatment with TRAIL. Therefore how to sensitize cancer cells to TRAIL-induced apoptosis may be promising for TRAIL application.
  但是很多肿瘤细胞包括胃癌细胞对TRAIL诱导的凋亡不敏感，因此如何能够提高肿瘤细胞对TRAIL诱导的凋亡的敏感性对TRAIL能更好地应用于临床至关重要。
• 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。
• 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。
• Through training to sensitize them to their work areas to be improved, work to develop and improve, while also stimulating the spiritual aspects of employee morale, good job allocation mechanism and the core staff promotion mechanisms are an important way to encourage the spirit of.
  通过培训使他们认识到自己工作中应改善的方面，工作得到发展和提高，同时还要在精神方面上激发员工的斗志，良好的岗位配置机制与晋升机制是对核心员工进行精神激励的重要方式。
• The association aims to sensitize employers to the problems faced by left-handed people in the workplace.
  联合会意在使雇主们关注车间里的左撇子所面临的问题。
• Inhibited the activation of transcription factors NF-kappa B. The study elucidated that emodin sensitize HeLa cells via generation of ROS which result in enhancement of apoptosis signaling pathway and inhibition of survival signaling pathway.
  抑制转录因子NF-kB激活。本研究提示：大黄素通过提高ROS介导凋亡信号传导的增强和生存信号传导的抑制，增加HeLa细胞对As2O3促凋亡的敏感性。
• Efforts to sensitize affected communities are continuing, with local volunteers supported by Portuguese-speaking experts from Brazil and Mozambique.
  向受感染社区进行宣传的努力正在继续，地方志愿人员得到了来自巴西和莫桑比克讲葡萄牙语的专家的支持。
• 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。
• 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。