allergy

allergy
[ˈalədʒi]
(pl. -ies)
  1. 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
  1. early 20th cent.: from German Allergie, from Greek allos 'other', on the pattern of Energie 'energy'
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