| 词组 | immune |
| 释义 | immune In general, when immune is used with a preposition, from and to appear about equally: • ... his [Donne's] contemporaries, who often seem ... to exist immune from our perplexities and swept by passions which we admire but cannot feel —Virginia Woolf, The Second Common Reader, 1932 • ... had some source of strength that made him immune from being imposed on by a woman of character like herself —Frank O'Connor, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 1952 • ... it could hardly have been immune from scrutiny by curious and critical official eyes —George F. Ken-nan, New Yorker, 1 May 1971 • To the extent that people develop personal and esthetic interests, they are immune to trivial changes in style —Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization, 1934 • And what pilot is immune to errors? —Charles A. Lindbergh, The Spirit of St. Louis, 1953 • ... these were not problems wholly immune to those immutable laws of change that eventually affect all societies —George F. Kennan, Saturday Rev., 6 Mar. 1976 Much less frequently, immune is used with against: • His name is now immune against partisan rancor — Richard M. Weaver, The Ethics of Rhetoric, 1953 • ... rendered communistic peoples more or less immune against fear —Raymond W. Bliss, Atlantic, November 1952 In its biological/medical sense, although immune has been used with against, from, and to, current evidence shows a preference for use of to: • ... furnish satisfactory evidence ... to the effect that he was immune against smallpox —Victor Heiser, An American Doctor's Odyssey, 1936 • ... immune from nervous and organic disorders — Alexis Carrel, Man, the Unknown, 1935 • An individual is immune to a virus as long as the corresponding antibodies are present in his circulatory system —J. D. Watson, Molecular Biology of the Gene, 1965 Some language commentators have said that immune may be used with of if it has been or is now so used, the occurrence is not common. Our files have no evidence for this usage. |
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