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单词 sensibility
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sensibility
noun
uk
/ˌsen.səˈbɪl.ə.ti/us
/ˌsen.səˈbɪl.ə.t̬i/
C2[U]
anunderstandingof orabilitytodecideabout what is good orvaluable,especiallyinconnectionwithartisticorsocialactivities:
（尤指艺术或社会活动方面的）鉴赏力，感受能力
literary/musical/artistic/theatrical/aestheticsensibility文学／音乐／艺术／戏剧／美学鉴赏力
Theauthorhasappliedamodernsensibility(= way ofunderstandingthings)to thesocialidealsof anearlierage.作者对较早期的社会理想采用了一种现代的理解方法。
sensibilities[plural]
feelings:
感情
In amulticulturalsocietywe need to showrespectfor the sensibilitiesofothers.在多元文化的社会中，我们需要尊重他人的感情。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Knowledge and awareness
  • acquaintance
  • alertness
  • as every schoolboy/schoolchild knowsidiom
  • astuteness
  • at/in the back ofyourmindidiom
  • firsthand
  • general knowledge
  • gnostic
  • grounding
  • have a nodding acquaintance withsomeone/somethingidiom
  • lived experience
  • metacognition
  • nescience
  • nescient
  • nod
  • offsomeone'sradaridiom
  • seize
  • street smarts
  • theory of mind
  • witting
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Feelings - general words
(Definition ofsensibilityfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

sensibility| American Dictionary

sensibility
noun
us
/ˌsen·səˈbɪl·ɪ·t̬i/
theabilitytofeelandreactto something:
[U]Thoseattitudesareoffensiveto themodernsensibility.
[pl]Helaunchedacrusadeagainstpubliclyfundedartthatoffendedhismoralsensibilities.
(Definition ofsensibilityfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsensibility

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Medically, their absence of inner heat, susceptible temperaments, pale countenances and enervated sensibilities bore out their emptiness of being.
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Such events see the patron's own sensibilities meander through very different architectural cultures.
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His nonconformism attracted a countercultural audience whom he mocked and a college audience whose left and liberal sensibilities he delighted in offending.
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His theory is sufficiently general to support many different sensibilities in the interpretation of it.
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The cosmopolitan meanings ascribed to recordings had a particularly strong impact on the development of local urban sensibilities and cultural practices.
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One such claim is that the controversy was not so much a conflict of ideas, but a clash of egos, ambitions, sensibilities, and the like.
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What is intriguing is that negative priming studies emphasizing body position and spatial sensibilities demonstrate the "embodiment" of the processes of suppression.
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Although this may seem natural to our current sensibilities (why would government schools turn out shaykhs?), it nevertheless represents a significant displacement.
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The second point requires that the varied "constructivist" sensibilities about science must be extended to the forms of economic calculation that provide its context.
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The first must be education to feed the sensibilities and historical understanding of the population.
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Presumably because science holds a far stronger and more central place in modern sensibilities than steamships do.
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They show, for instance, how music can be used within fiction to indicate the feelings and sensibilities of the characters.
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The sheer effort of creation takes too great a toll of the sensibilities.
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In jazz, modernism challenged an aesthetic establishment within the sensibilities of popular entertainment.
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Cross-cultural change, especially in urban areas, would still logically be low because of renewed group sensibilities.
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