sensitize

1. V-T If you sensitize people to a particular problem or situation, you make them aware of it. 使...意識到[正式]

It seems important to sensitize people to the fact that depression is more than the blues. 讓人們意識到抑鬱症不僅是沮喪，這點似乎是重要的。

How many judges in our male-dominated courts are sensitized to women's issues?

在男性佔主導的法庭上，會有多少法官對婦女問題敏感呢？

2. V-T If a substance is sensitized to something such as light or touch, it is made sensitive to it. 反應敏感[usu passive]

Skin is easily irritated, chapped, chafed, and sensitized. 肌膚容易受刺激，粗糙和敏感。

...sensitized nerve endings. ...敏感的神經末梢。