Sensibility
[,sensɪ'bɪlɪtɪ] or [,sɛnsə'bɪləti]
解释:
(noun.) mental responsiveness and awareness.
(noun.) refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions; 'cruelty offended his sensibility'.
编辑:莉齐--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.
(n.) The capacity of emotion or feeling, as distinguished from the intellect and the will; peculiar susceptibility of impression, pleasurable or painful; delicacy of feeling; quick emotion or sympathy; as, sensibility to pleasure or pain; sensibility to shame or praise; exquisite sensibility; -- often used in the plural.
(n.) Experience of sensation; actual feeling.
(n.) That quality of an instrument which makes it indicate very slight changes of condition; delicacy; as, the sensibility of a balance, or of a thermometer.
杜安整理
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Feeling, sensitiveness.[2]. Delicacy of feeling, tender feeling, quick emotion.
手打:玛吉
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Susceptibility, delicacy, feeling, refinement, impressibleness, sensitiveness
ANT:Insensibility, insusceptibility, coarseness, unimpressibleness
整理:奥利维亚
例句:
- Elinor saw, with concern, the excess of her sister's sensibility; but by Mrs. Dashwood it was valued and cherished. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- Her sensibility was potent enough! 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- In a short restless interval of sensibility, or partial sensibility, I made out that he asked for you to be brought to sit by him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Peasant girls as they were, they had too much of our own English sensibility to be guilty of the coarse error. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Miss Halcombe is a person of similar sensibility. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Why, he slowly replied, roughening his head more and more, he is all sentiment, and--and susceptibility, and--and sensibility, and--and imagination. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Many public institutions experienced his well-timed liberality, and he manifested a sensibility of heart by numerous acts of private charity. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- I could not excuse a man's having more music than lovemore ear than eyea more acute sensibility to fine sounds than to my feelings. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- For sensibility and genius, with all their tenderness and temerity, I felt somehow that Madame would be the right sort of Minos in petticoats. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- But it would have broke MY heart, had I loved him, to hear him read with so little sensibility. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
- To a person of similar sensibility this simple assertion will explain and excuse everything. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- There was a sensibility and sweetness in his disposition, that gave a tender and unearthly tone to our converse. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Emma agreed to it, and with a blush of sensibility on Harriet's account, which she could not give any sincere explanation of. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- At every new attempt to look about him the same morbid sensibility to light was manifested, and excoriating tears ran down his cheeks. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- From the primitive or nutrient soul which ha s to do with the vital functions of growth and reproduction, is developed the sentient soul, concerned with movemen t and sensibility. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- These were young girls, like herself; some perhaps pretty, some not without a trace of her finer sensibilities. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- No new calamity shall lacerate your sensibilities--sensibilities precious to me as my own. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I have to thank these pages for awakening the finest sensibilities in my nature--nothing more. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- She seemed encased in a strong armour of indifference, as though the vigorous exertion of her will had finally benumbed her finer sensibilities. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- What fine hidden sensibilities are touched in such a case, no echoes tell; but it is so, and it was so here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Such an exercise would, I fear, involve a considerable strain on what reformers call their moral sensibilities. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Her sensibilities were so weak and tremulous that perhaps they ought not to be talked about in a book. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- I didn't know what it was to be a mother; unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me, and so on. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- This trivial crape expresses sensibilities which I summon Mr. Hartright to respect. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Her sensibilities, I suspect, are strongand her temper excellent in its power of forbearance, patience, self-control; but it wants openness. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
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