| 词组 | sensible |
| 释义 | sensible In a range of senses having to do with awareness and sensitivity rather than good sense, sensible may take a prepositional phrase complement, usually beginning with of: • "If my children are silly, I must hope to be always sensible of it." —Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813 • "... For my part, though deeply sensible of its influence, I cannot seize it." —Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun, 1860 • ... he had been to a certain extent sensible of having been noticed in a quiet manner by the father — Joseph Conrad, Chance, 1913 • ... Hooker, like Burke, is sensible of the force of circumstances —A. S. P. Woodhouse, Philosophical Rev., October 1952 Sensible is used less often with to: • ... quickly become sensible to slight changes of temperature —Samuel Eliot Morison, Admiral of the Ocean Sea, 1942 • Sensible to these favors, he resisted the temptation —Noel F. Busch, My Unconsidered Judgment, 1944 To judge from the evidence that has been collected for the Merriam-Webster files over the last thirty or forty years, sensible is now being used less often in these constructions than it formerly was. |
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