a damaging immune response by the body to a substance, especially a particular food, pollen, fur, or dust, to which it has become hypersensitive 变应性,过敏(症) ■(informal)an antipathy (非正式)憎恶,反感 their allergy to free enterprise. 他们对自由企业的反感。
语源
early 20th cent.: from German Allergie, from Greek allos 'other', on the pattern of Energie 'energy'