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词汇 sensitize
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Definition of sensitize in English:

sensitize

(British sensitise)
verb ˈsɛnsɪtʌɪzˈsɛnsəˌtaɪz
[with object]often sensitize someone/something to
  • 1Cause (someone or something) to respond to certain stimuli; make sensitive.

    使敏感

    the introductory section aims to sensitize students to the methodology of the course

    引言一节的目的是使学生对本课程的方法论敏感。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Besides sensitising the people to the menace, the Central Bureau of Investigation should be permitted to act independently.
    • It is possible to sensitize students to the risks that exist so that they won't be surprised when an issue presents itself.
    • As a tool it looks at the preferences of individuals and it is good for sensitising people to their differences and how they approach tasks.
    • Animal studies suggest that early trauma sensitizes individuals to be more vulnerable to social and emotional impairments associated with the effects of subsequent stressful or traumatic situations.
    • I'm not sure whether the writers of The Prisoner were scheming to sensitize young viewers to a future appreciation of punk, Situationism, or Dada, but that's what happened to me.
    • In trying to sensitize people to crimes aimed specifically at minorities, they are inadvertently desensitizing them to the vastly greater threat of crime against everyone.
    • So we have decided to air this show without commercials in a way that we try to sensitize the audience to people that they'll see in the show who really are no longer with us.
    • Problem-based learning employing ‘hands on’ teamwork in solving actual patient cases sensitized students to their professional role and those of other team members.
    • In order to sensitize students to difference and the need for social cooperation, short-term service programs often focus on what service means for the student and their character formation.
    • It attempts to sensitize people to those emotions so they can be utilized to analyze and control the contingencies relevant to them and thereby to control these emotions.
    • The hope is that the students are sensitised to not focus just on the disease itself, but on the patient.
    • The challenge of reading text in English may have sensitized the students to anything that appeared to be novel or different.
    • Aimed at sensitising the male psyche to the vulnerability of women to sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS, the organisation is working on two phases.
    • The entertainment programme included a play by the college students, sensitising them to nutrition and personal hygiene, screening of a cartoon movie and a visit to the college's computer centre and a library meant for children.
    • Is there then even a faint possibility of sensitising kids to the utopian ideals of freedom, justice and equality?
    • The aim of this session was to sensitize the officers to the risks children face living in situations of domestic violence.
    • Cartoons and comics also have the potential to be used as an effective means of social communication and may be employed as a powerful tool for sensitising masses to a cause, or mobilising public opinion on an issue.
    • I believe that such an exercise sensitizes students to the family as they engage in the reflecting-team experience.
    • It aims to sensitise privileged schoolchildren to underprivileged ones.
    • While the teaching video focuses on children's reactions to transitional changes, this video complements exercises presented in the guide that focus on sensitizing teachers to children's responses to change.
    Synonyms
    responsive to, quick to respond to, sensitized to, reactive to, sentient of
    1. 1.1 Make (photographic film) sensitive to light.
      使(照相胶卷)感光
      the kit sensitizes any 35 mm film in hours

      这套用具能使35毫米胶卷在数小时内感光。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • The plates had to be sensitised just before the photograph was taken, and since this was the era of the wet collodion process and Egypt was very hot, many times Frith's collodion boiled while he was trying to coat his glass plates.
      • In the daguerreotype process, an early type of photography, a silver plate was sensitized by exposure to iodine vapors.
      • Photographers then added other sensitizing chemicals and allowed the plate to dry to a tacky consistency before dipping it in a bath of silver nitrate and other ingredients.
      • Black and white photographic emulsions are composed of layers of silver halide crystals, with additional small amounts of various sensitizing agents, suspended in gelatin.
      • All tests of same process were on paper sensitized and developed together.
      Synonyms
      hypersensitive, sensitive, susceptible, sensitized
    2. 1.2 Make (an organism) abnormally sensitive to a foreign substance.
      使(有机体)敏感
      the workers had been immunologically sensitized to the enzyme

      工人们已在免疫系统上对酶过敏了。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Before the introduction of troglitazone in 1997 metformin was the only drug able to sensitise target tissues (skeletal muscle, adipose tissue, and the liver) to insulin.
      • In both the short- and long-term protocols, a control group of mice was sensitized to OVA and challenged with saline alone.
      • This is quite modest at low work rates - except when the carotid chemoreceptors are sensitized, such as during sojourns at high altitude.
      • Even smaller amounts can sensitize the immune system, setting the stage for disease.
      • Prostaglandins promote the development of hyperalgesia by sensitizing nociceptive neurons.

Derivatives

  • sensitization

  • noun sɛnsɪtʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n
    • They have to be part and parcel of the program of awareness and sensitization.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Diesel particulates increase the formation of the allergic antibody and can also increase sensitisation to commonly encountered allergens in the air.
      • It was the strength of the bond between the two that caused the persistent sensitisation brought on during allergy attacks.
      • Many experts, including Sharma, feel that one way to address this harsh reality is to begin gender sensitization at an early stage.
      • There is room for increased police action within the existing framework, increased responsiveness, greater resources at the command of the police and better sensitisation of the personnel.
  • sensitizer

  • noun ˈsɛnsɪtʌɪzəˈsɛnsəˌtaɪzər
    • Phototreatment by sensitizers is a method being investigated for virus inactivation of blood products.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Despite optimal therapy for asthma and the institution of appropriate workplace accommodations to reduce the effects of irritants or sensitizers on airway mechanics, certain individuals remain unable to work.
      • Exposure to proinflammatory agents such as allergens, occupational sensitizers, and infections has been shown to increase airway responsiveness in subjects with and without asthma, and this may cause asthma in the latter group.
      • The investigations were performed on selected sensitizers that exhibit short fluorescence decay times
      • They are loaded with carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, liver and kidney damagers and sensitizers.

Definition of sensitize in US English:

sensitize

(British sensitise)
verbˈsɛnsəˌtaɪzˈsensəˌtīz
[with object]
  • 1Cause (someone or something) to respond to certain stimuli; make sensitive.

    使敏感

    the introductory section aims to sensitize students to the methodology of the course

    引言一节的目的是使学生对本课程的方法论敏感。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The challenge of reading text in English may have sensitized the students to anything that appeared to be novel or different.
    • Animal studies suggest that early trauma sensitizes individuals to be more vulnerable to social and emotional impairments associated with the effects of subsequent stressful or traumatic situations.
    • In order to sensitize students to difference and the need for social cooperation, short-term service programs often focus on what service means for the student and their character formation.
    • Aimed at sensitising the male psyche to the vulnerability of women to sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS, the organisation is working on two phases.
    • As a tool it looks at the preferences of individuals and it is good for sensitising people to their differences and how they approach tasks.
    • In trying to sensitize people to crimes aimed specifically at minorities, they are inadvertently desensitizing them to the vastly greater threat of crime against everyone.
    • I believe that such an exercise sensitizes students to the family as they engage in the reflecting-team experience.
    • The entertainment programme included a play by the college students, sensitising them to nutrition and personal hygiene, screening of a cartoon movie and a visit to the college's computer centre and a library meant for children.
    • Is there then even a faint possibility of sensitising kids to the utopian ideals of freedom, justice and equality?
    • The aim of this session was to sensitize the officers to the risks children face living in situations of domestic violence.
    • Problem-based learning employing ‘hands on’ teamwork in solving actual patient cases sensitized students to their professional role and those of other team members.
    • It is possible to sensitize students to the risks that exist so that they won't be surprised when an issue presents itself.
    • Besides sensitising the people to the menace, the Central Bureau of Investigation should be permitted to act independently.
    • The hope is that the students are sensitised to not focus just on the disease itself, but on the patient.
    • I'm not sure whether the writers of The Prisoner were scheming to sensitize young viewers to a future appreciation of punk, Situationism, or Dada, but that's what happened to me.
    • While the teaching video focuses on children's reactions to transitional changes, this video complements exercises presented in the guide that focus on sensitizing teachers to children's responses to change.
    • So we have decided to air this show without commercials in a way that we try to sensitize the audience to people that they'll see in the show who really are no longer with us.
    • It aims to sensitise privileged schoolchildren to underprivileged ones.
    • It attempts to sensitize people to those emotions so they can be utilized to analyze and control the contingencies relevant to them and thereby to control these emotions.
    • Cartoons and comics also have the potential to be used as an effective means of social communication and may be employed as a powerful tool for sensitising masses to a cause, or mobilising public opinion on an issue.
    Synonyms
    responsive to, quick to respond to, sensitized to, reactive to, sentient of
    1. 1.1 Make (photographic film) sensitive to light.
      使(照相胶卷)感光
      the kit sensitizes any 35 mm film in hours

      这套用具能使35毫米胶卷在数小时内感光。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Black and white photographic emulsions are composed of layers of silver halide crystals, with additional small amounts of various sensitizing agents, suspended in gelatin.
      • In the daguerreotype process, an early type of photography, a silver plate was sensitized by exposure to iodine vapors.
      • Photographers then added other sensitizing chemicals and allowed the plate to dry to a tacky consistency before dipping it in a bath of silver nitrate and other ingredients.
      • All tests of same process were on paper sensitized and developed together.
      • The plates had to be sensitised just before the photograph was taken, and since this was the era of the wet collodion process and Egypt was very hot, many times Frith's collodion boiled while he was trying to coat his glass plates.
      Synonyms
      hypersensitive, sensitive, susceptible, sensitized
    2. 1.2 Make (an organism) abnormally sensitive to a foreign substance.
      使(有机体)敏感
      the workers had been immunologically sensitized to the enzyme

      工人们已在免疫系统上对酶过敏了。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Before the introduction of troglitazone in 1997 metformin was the only drug able to sensitise target tissues (skeletal muscle, adipose tissue, and the liver) to insulin.
      • This is quite modest at low work rates - except when the carotid chemoreceptors are sensitized, such as during sojourns at high altitude.
      • In both the short- and long-term protocols, a control group of mice was sensitized to OVA and challenged with saline alone.
      • Prostaglandins promote the development of hyperalgesia by sensitizing nociceptive neurons.
      • Even smaller amounts can sensitize the immune system, setting the stage for disease.
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