To desensitize someone to things such as pain, anxiety, or other people's suffering, means to cause them to react less strongly to them.
例句
...the language that is used to desensitize us to the terrible reality of war...旨在讓我們對戰(zhàn)爭的殘酷現(xiàn)實無動于衷的語言Your immune system has been desensitized because it has become used to the substance.你的免疫系統(tǒng)已經(jīng)因習慣了這種物質(zhì)而不再敏感。
英英詞典釋義
Verb
1. cause not to be sensitive;
"The war desensitized many soldiers""The photographic plate was desensitized"