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发音：[səˈseptəb(ə)l]
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例句：
- If a person is susceptible to something, such as some stimulus, influence, or ideas, then he or she is easily influenced or affected by it.
- Without enough water, trees are usually susceptible to bark beetle attacks and disease.
- Our Asian elders have been so vulnerable since the start of the pandemic, from physical attacks in the streets to being isolated from family, and now, being susceptible to gun propaganda and violence.
- Cities receiving their drinking water from rivers had a higher death rate from cancer than did those whose water came from sources presumably less susceptible to pollution such as wells.
- Android devices are more susceptible to nasty programs than Apple phones partly because they can be set up to install apps from unauthorized app stores.
- Compared to the general population, trans people, especially trans women of color, are significantly more susceptible to discrimination and violence and experience higher rates of poverty, homelessness, and suicidal thoughts.
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解释：
- Susceptible这个单词做形容词使用，其表示“being likely to be influenced or affected by some stimulus, action, process, ideas, environment, etc.”这一含义，即“敏感的/善感的/易受影响的/易受感染的”，与vulnerable/sensitive/unprotected这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- Zoom had to rewrite parts of its privacy policy after it was discovered that users’ personal information was susceptible to being used to target ads.（Zoom 公司在发现用户的个人信息容易被用于定位广告后，不得不重写其部分隐私政策。）
—Technology - One 2020 study found that heavy users of social media who are also politically conservative are more likely to be susceptible to misinformation related to COVID-19 than those who are not conservative.（2020年的一项研究发现，政治保守的社交媒体重度用户比不保守的人更容易受到与COVID-19相关的错误信息的影响。）
—Science - A Cornell University-affiliated neurologist pointed out there’s a trove of data and research that suggests children are more susceptible to concussions and brain injuries when they do exercises.（康奈尔大学附属神经学家指出，有大量数据和研究表明，当儿童进行锻炼时更容易受到脑震荡和脑损伤的影响。）
—Sports - Surveys about religious behavior and belief are highly susceptible to social desirability bias, meaning the very human tendency to tell researchers what they want to hear.（关于宗教行为和信仰的调查极易受到社会期望偏差的影响，这意味着人类倾向于告诉研究人员他们想听什么。）
—Culture
