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 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。
• Furthermore, MTDH knockdown has been found to sensitize breast cancer and neuroblastoma cells to cisplatin. The mechanisms of radiotherapy and cisplatin to kill cancer cell are similar: causing DNA damage.
  另外，研究者发现干扰MTDH可以增加乳腺癌和神经母细胞瘤对顺铂的敏感性，而放疗和顺铂的作用机制相似，均可引起DNA损伤，所以我们猜想MTDH可能影响肿瘤细胞对放疗的敏感性。
• 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。
• In order to prepare Ag-coated flake graphite used as filler of conductive adhesive or poles of the battery, the electroless plating procedure was investigated that plated the silver directly in alkaline solution without activation or sensitize treatment.
  为制备可用于高性能电池电极和导电胶的石墨填料，采用了不经过敏化、活化处理而直接在碱性镀液中进行化学镀银的方法制备了镀银鳞片石墨。
• 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。
• To determine whether persistent exposure to hypoxia may sensitize or blunt cell response to histamine, the effects of 24 h subacute mild hypoxia on histamine-stimulated calcium oscillation frequency were examined in pulmonary artery endothelial cells ( PAECs).
  为探索持续缺氧是强化还是钝化肺动脉内皮细胞对组胺的反应，研究了24h亚急性轻度缺氧对组胺刺激的肺动脉内皮细胞钙振荡频率的影响，并探索了其机制。
• CHK1 inhibition is expected to sensitize cells to a broad spectrum of DNA-damaging agents.
  人们认为抑制CHK1可以使细胞对DNA损伤剂的敏感性扩宽。
• 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。
• Various studies had suggested that early exposure to peanut protein by infants with allergic tendencies could sensitize them and lead to a serious peanut allergy.
  为数众多不同的研究表明，具有过敏倾向的婴儿过早地接触到花生蛋白很可能会引起致敏，继而导致严重的花生过敏。