词组 | insensible |
释义 | insensible When insensible is used with a preposition, it is usually to: • ... Archer had never been insensible to such advantages —Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, 1920 • ... the strange thing is that a boy so sentient of his surroundings should have been so insensible to the real world about him —The Autobiography of William Allen White, 1946 • I never knew a member of the Vietnam press corps who was insensible to what happened when the words "war" and "correspondent" got joined — Michael Herr, Esquire, April 1970 At one time, insensible was also used with of although not so often as with to. Over the last 30 years, however, insensible of 'has seldom turned up in our reading: • If there was one man in the world she hated because he was insensible of her attraction it was Mark — Ford Madox Ford, The Last Post, 1928 • ... the primitive ... mind ... is untrammelled by logic, and insensible of the law of contradiction — Sir James G. Frazer, Aftermath, 1937 |
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