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inured

/in-yoord, ih-noord/US // ɪnˈyʊərd, ɪˈnʊərd //

固化,固化的,痊愈,痊愈的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : hardened by frequent exposure, especially to something bad; accustomed: I realize that many teens have seen online porn and may be somewhat inured to scenes that seemed shocking to me.

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Examples

  • As a society, we’ve long been inured to reports of drivers picking off individuals on bikes.

  • Next, though the company is keeping specifics close to the vest, are robotic insertions between us and a whole raft of physical realities that, much like the original framework of a robotic world, inures us from the dull and dreary.

  • The tawdry details of the Clinton scandals differed, but the basic narrative was one to which Americans were becoming inured.

  • Sadly, Americans have become inured to pathological behaviors.

  • They are experienced with the grim side of husbandry, but they are not inured to it.

  • Was it that I had become more inured to adversity, more philosophical, more of a Christian?

  • It was inured to constant, almost daily, combat with the enemy, of all arms and under every possible contingency.

  • It seemed as if my mind, instead of becoming inured to evil, grew more keenly susceptible of pain.

  • At the Thatcher house, Harwood caught fitful glimpses of Allen's father, a bird of passage inured to sleeping-cars.

  • They became accustomed to severe exercise, and were inured to patient and painful endurance.