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    If you are susceptible to something, it can affect or hurt you more easily than it affects other people. A doctor might say a patient is "susceptible to infection," meaning their body catches it easily. A plant can be "susceptible to" a disease the same way.

    If you are susceptible to something如果你susceptible to某件事 it can affect or hurt you more easily than it affects other people代表那件事影響你或傷害你的機率會比影響別人的機率高 A doctor might say a patient is 'susceptible to infection'醫生可能會說一個病人"susceptible to infection"(容易感染) meaning their body catches it easily意思是他的身體很容易被感染 A plant can be 'susceptible to' a disease the same way植物也可以用同樣的方式說"susceptible to"某種疾病

    It also works for feelings: someone "susceptible to flattery" is easily influenced by nice words, and someone "susceptible to pressure" gives in easily.

    It also works for feelings這個字也可以用在情緒上 someone 'susceptible to flattery' is easily influenced by nice words"susceptible to flattery"的人很容易被好話影響 and someone 'susceptible to pressure' gives in easily"susceptible to pressure"的人則很容易屈服

    The word almost always needs "to" after it, plus whatever the person or thing is open to. It sounds a bit formal or medical — in everyday talk people often just say "easily affected" or "easily influenced" instead.

    The word almost always needs 'to' after it這個字後面幾乎都要接"to" plus whatever the person or thing is open to再加上這個人或東西容易受影響的那件事 It sounds a bit formal or medical它聽起來有點正式或偏醫學 in everyday talk people often just say 'easily affected' or 'easily influenced' instead日常對話裡大家常常就直接說"easily affected"或"easily influenced"來代替

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組成From Latin roots meaning "able to take up underneath" — the idea of something ready to receive whatever comes at it. Students don't need this history to use the word, but it explains why "to" always follows.

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

susceptibleadj[səˈsɛptɪbl̩]

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    Likely to be affected by something.

    • He was susceptible to minor ailments.
  • 2

    Easily influenced or tricked; credulous.

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    medicinesciencesEspecially sensitive, particularly to a stimulus.

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    That, when subjected to a specific operation, will yield a specific result.

    • Rational numbers are susceptible of description as quotients of two integers.
    • A properly prepared surface is susceptible of an enduring paint job.
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    Vulnerable.

    • The visitors were being pinned back by the end of the first half. Yet Gordon Strachan's side played with great conviction and always had a chance of springing a surprise when their opponents were so susceptible at the back.
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    Amenable.

    • In the next several chapters, we put the basic tools to work in different contexts with particular specification of return and transition equations designed to render the Bellman equation susceptible to further analysis and computation.

susceptiblenoun[səˈsɛptɪbl̩]

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    epidemiologymedicinesciencesA person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease

    • In either instance a decrease in the number of susceptibles, by making the spread of virus less easy, tends towards a stage at which the infection dies out.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。