insensitive
insensitive 英 [ɪnˈsensətɪv] 美 [ɪnˈsɛnsɪtɪv]
adj. 感觉迟钝的，对…没有感觉的
名词复数:insensitives
- When you're insensitive, you're not feeling something. You can be insensitive to the weather or other people's problems.
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- adj. 感觉迟钝的，对…没有感觉的
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1. She says his troubles in middle school had little to do with problems at home, and everything to do with insensitive teachers.
她说，他的问题是在学校里，几乎跟家里没有什么关系，一切都怨学校里那些冷酷的教师。
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2. Even the New York mayor, Michael Bloomberg, did not know about it, and said it was "insensitive" to fly so near the site of the 2001 attacks.
甚至纽约市市长迈克尔.布隆伯格也不知道这回事，他说飞得距2001年袭击事件的遗址如此之近实在是“欠考虑”。
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3. Photosynthesis is modulated by oxygen, and we have an oxygen-insensitive hydrogenase that we think will totally change this process.
光合作用受氧调节，而我们使用的对氧不敏感的氢化酶，将完全改变这一过程。
- insensitive (adj.) c. 1600, "having little or no reaction to what is perceived by one's senses," from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + sensitive. For sense, see insensate. From 1834 as "having little or no mental or moral sensitiveness;" meaning "without consideration for the feelings of others" attested by 1974. Related: Insensitively.
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