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immune

adjective
 
🔊/ɪˈmjuːn/
🔊/ɪˈmjuːn/
[not usually before noun]
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  1.  
    immune (to something) that cannot catch or be affected by a particular disease or illness有免疫力
    • Adults are often immune to German measles.成人往往对风疹有免疫力。🔊🔊
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    • Many people are immune to this disease.许多人对这种疾病有免疫力。
    • The vaccination doesn't necessarily make you completely immune.接种这种疫苗并不一定能完全免疫。
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    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • seem
    • become
    • …
    adverb
    • completely
    • totally
    preposition
    • to
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  2.  
    immune (to something) not affected by something, especially something that you might expect to be harmful 不受影响
    • You'll eventually become immune to criticism.你终究会变得不在乎批评了。🔊🔊
    • Few men are immune to her charms.很少有人会幸免于她的魅力。
    • Our business is far from immune to economic conditions.我们的业务远非不受经济状况的影响。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • appear
    • be
    • prove
    • …
    adverb
    • completely
    • entirely
    • totally
    • …
    preposition
    • from
    • to
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  3.  
    immune (from something) protected from something and therefore able to avoid it受保护；免除；豁免 synonym exempt
    • No one should be immune from prosecution.任何人都不应免于被起诉。🔊🔊
    • Not even the President’s wife was immune from criticism by the press.甚至连总统的妻子也不能幸免于媒体的批评。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • appear
    • be
    • prove
    • …
    adverb
    • completely
    • entirely
    • totally
    • …
    preposition
    • from
    • to
    See full entry
    4. Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘free from (a liability)’): from Latin immunis ‘exempt from public service or charge’, from in- ‘not’ + munis ‘ready for service’. Sense 1 dates from the late 19th cent.