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labile

/ley-bahyl, -buhl/US // ˈleɪ baɪl, -bəl //UK // (ˈleɪbɪl) //

易受影响的,脆弱的,易受影响,易变的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : apt or likely to change: the labile nature of language.
    • : able or likely to change or break down easily, rapidly, or continually; unstable: labile emotions;labile blood pressure;cellular functions that seem to require different levels of labile zinc.

Examples

  • “People with a history of trauma and mental illness tend to be emotionally labile,” Kupers added.

  • On the contrary the labile opsonins of normal serum have a comparatively general action on different organisms.

  • This is readily intelligible on the supposition that the toxophorous group is more labile than the haptophorous.

  • The latter is ferment-like and much more labile than the former, being readily destroyed at 60 C.

  • In both cases an extremely labile connection with consciousness arises which leads to a rapid forgetting.

  • We are rather like the labile chemical compounds: our molecules readily rearrange themselves.