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
- : 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.
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