汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 麻木不仁
麻木不仁
numbed / insensitive / apathetic / thick-skinned
不仁 no feeling / Paralysis of limbs and loss of consciousness / The metaphor is slow or indifferent to external things
神经系统的病态之一。肢体发麻,没有感觉。 比喻人对外界事物反应迟钝﹐或没有感情。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

他似乎对批评麻木不仁

He seems completely insensitive to criticism.

他是麻木不仁,自私自利,显然地粗鲁无礼。

He is insensitive, selfish and often just plain rude.

我感到丈夫对我的问题麻木不仁

I feel my husband is very insensitive about my problem.

我无法相信他们是如此的麻木不仁

I couldn't believe they were so heartless.

他对同志不是满腔热情,而是冷冷清清,漠不关心,麻木不仁

He felt no warmth towards his comrades but was cold, indifferent and apathetic.

这时,汤姆已经对和这跟迫害差不多的治疗麻木不仁

Tom had become indifferent to persecution by this time.

然而在对待动物时,中国人的麻木不仁常常让人大跌眼镜。

Yet the Chinese have always had a refreshingly unsentimental attitude when it comes to animals.

我有一次听到一个年轻人非常麻木不仁,甚至不给他生病的父亲付医药费。

I once heard of a youth who was so dead to all right feeling that he would not pay for medicine.

人们现在表现出来的这种麻木不仁、见死不救的态度已引起了全社会的关注。

It has caught people's attention country wide how some people showed no care and would not give help when facing life or death.

我变得油滑了,根本不理睬这些漫无边际的威胁,而且对一切玄奥的说教都变得麻木不仁了。

I became skilled in ignoring these cosmic threats and developed a callousness toward all metaphysical preachments.