immune

英 [ɪ'mjuːn] 美 [ɪ'mjʊn]

解释

※ 提供单词"immune"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照，中英文词源、例句和用法等。

immune 免疫的，受保护的

im-,不，非，-mun,公共的，履行公共服务的，词源同common,communicate.即免除公共责任或义务，后引申词义免疫的，受保护的。

immune: immune: [15] The -mune of immune is the same as that of remunerate and of commune (and hence of common). It represents Latin mūnis ‘ready to give service’. The addition of the negative prefix in- gave immūnis, which in classical Latin denoted literally ‘exempt from a service, charge, etc’, and hence by metaphorical extension ‘free from something, devoid of something’. This general sense still survives, of course, in English (as in ‘grant immunity from prosecution’); and the more specific ‘not liable to infection’ did not emerge until as recently as the 1870s, probably under the influence of French or German.
=> common, commune, remunerate
immune (adj.): mid-15c., "free; exempt," back-formation from immunity. Latin immunis meant "exempt from public service, free from taxes." Specific modern medical sense of "exempt from a disease" (typically because of inoculation) is from 1881. Immune system attested by 1917.

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1. This discovery led on to studies of the immune system.: 此发现使人们开始对免疫系统进行研究。

2. Members of the Bundestag are immune from prosecution for corruption.: 德国联邦议院的成员可免受贪腐罪的起诉。

4. The immune system is our main defence against disease.: 人体的免疫系统是抵御疾病的主要屏障。