| 词组 | subject |
| 释义 | subject [subjected, subjected, subjecting] subject to 1. subject sb to sth usually passive to force someone to experience something very unpleasant: ▪ She was subjected to years of battering and abuse before she finally divorced her husband. ▪ An African-American friend told me that she is subjected to racist behavior every day. ▪ Human rights groups complained that the men had been subjected to torture during interrogation. 2. subject sth to tests/analysis/scrutiny etc to test something or examine it carefully: ▪ Drugs are subjected to rigorous testing before they can be marketed. ▪ The airplane wing is being subjected to scrutiny, as it is thought that the crash could have been caused by a fault in its design. ▪ In her report, Patricia M. Morgan subjects government crime statistics to careful analysis. 3. be subjected to sth to be affected by physical forces such as heat, light, energy etc: ▪ When rocks are subjected to very high temperatures, structural changes occur. ▪ They warned us that if the building were subjected to the force of a major earthquake it would certainly collapse. |
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