Insensible
[ɪn'sensɪb(ə)l] or [ɪn'sɛnsəbl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) unresponsive to stimulation; 'he lay insensible where he had fallen'; 'drugged and senseless' .
(adj.) incapable of physical sensation; 'insensible to pain'; 'insensible earth' .
(adj.) unaware of or indifferent to; 'insensible to the suffering around him' .
柏格編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility.
(a.) Not susceptible of emotion or passion; void of feeling; apathetic; unconcerned; indifferent; as, insensible to danger, fear, love, etc.; -- often used with of or to.
(a.) Incapable of being perceived by the senses; imperceptible. Hence: Progressing by imperceptible degrees; slow; gradual; as, insensible motion.
(a.) Not sensible or reasonable; meaningless.
整理:洛蒂
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Imperceptible, imperceivable, not discoverable.[2]. Insensate, dull, stupid, torpid, brutish, senseless, without sensibility.[3]. Unfeeling, apathetic, phlegmatic, unsusceptible, unimpressible.
芭比整理
同義詞及反義詞：
[See SENSIBLE]
杰拉尔丁校對
解釋/意思:
adj. not having feeling: not susceptible of emotion: callous: dull: unconscious: imperceptible by the senses.—ns. Insensibil′ity Insen′sibleness; Insen′siblist an unfeeling person.—adv. Insen′sibly.—adj. Insen′suous not sensuous: without the power of perception.
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例句/造句/用法:
- But, for many days, Oliver remained insensible to all the goodness of his new friends. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The impertinence made his veins go cold, he was insensible. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Harriet was not insensible of manner; she had voluntarily noticed her father's gentleness with admiration as well as wonder. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I was too much shocked to be able to pass myself off as insensible even to the undiscerning Sir John. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Donne, indeed, was of that coldly phlegmatic, immovably complacent, densely self-satisfied nature which is insensible to shame. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Still, Oliver lay motionless and insensible on the spot where Sikes had left him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Mr. Helstone opined that they were like other fools who had just paired--insensible to inconvenience just for the moment. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- You seem to me insensible both to pain and fear and grief. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He is almost always insensible. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Not quite so miserable as to be insensible to mirth. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- She did not know I was going to her house that very night, for she was too insensible to understand me. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Both of them were blue-lipped and insensible, with swollen, congested faces and protruding eyes. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- She dreaded lest she should learn to be insensible of it. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Compliance, by rendering our strength useless, makes us insensible of it: but opposition awakens and employs it. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The Bench was nothing to me but an insensible blunderer. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Of him, insensible. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- As for him, he methodically discusses his matter of business as if she were any insensible instrument used in business. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I fainted once more, but again it could only have been for a very few minutes during which I was insensible. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Elizabeth looked expressively at Lydia; but she, who never heard nor saw anything of which she chose to be insensible, gaily continued, Oh! 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- The most proudly independent man depends on those around him for their insensible influence on his character--his life. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The dark circles deepened, the lips quivered and contracted, and she became insensible once more. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Something was needed to render the rubber insensible to the changes of temperature. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Her quiet lucidity startled him, but did not mislead him into thinking her insensible. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- She arrived there in great agitation, and was insensible all through the night. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Peggotty was quietly assisting, with the old insensible work-box, yard-measure, and bit of wax-candle before her, that had now outlived so much. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- What I had to do, was, to show my aunt that her past goodness to me had not been thrown away on an insensible, ungrateful object. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The prisoners were far from insensible or unfeeling; their ways arose out of the condition of the time. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- These differences blend into each other by an insensible series; and a series impresses the mind with the idea of an actual passage. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- But are you so insensible as you profess yourself? 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Her father had gone on before, to prepare her, and when her husband stood upon his feet, she dropped insensible in his arms. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
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