| 词组 | sensitive |
| 释义 | sensitive When sensitive is complemented by a prepositional phrase, the preposition is often to: • Madame Defarge being sensitive to cold, was wrapped in fur —Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859 • Lawrence is as sensitive to falsity as the True Princess was to the pea —Eudora Welty, Atlantic, March 1949 • ... became sensitive to the rights and special needs of the handicapped —Ronald Reagan, Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation, 1984 The next most common preposition is about, followed by of and on: • ... the Nationalist Government today is probably more sensitive about its face —Peggy Durdin, N. Y. Times Mag., 23 Jan. 1955 • I'm sorry. I'm somewhat sensitive about it —Leonard Bernstein, Atlantic, April 1955 • ... be sensitive of the rights of the Opposition — Clement Atlee, Speech on the King's Address, 16 Aug. 1945, in Voices of History 1945-46, ed. Nathan Ausobel, 1946 • "... This affair is too damned serious to be sensitive on etiquette " —Van Wyck Mason, The Shanghai Bund Murders, 1933 Very occasionally, sensitive has also been used with as to, for, in, or over: • ... was sensitive as to its rights and jealous of its constitutional prerogatives —Dictionary of American Biography, 1928 • ... a little frightened, big-eyed and simple, sensitive for himself in a way that bordered on the humble — Francis Hackett, Henry The Eighth, 1929 • The Russians are notoriously sensitive in keeping all observers from their border areas —New Republic, 9 July 1951 • ... sensitive over the affliction of growing deafness —Dictionary of American Biography, 1929 |
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