shockable
adjective uk/ˈʃɒk.ə.bəl/ us/ˈʃɑː.kə.bəl/
易受惊吓的;易被冒犯的
easily shocked or offended
I have to be careful what I say to my mother - she's very shockable. 我必须小心地对我母亲说话——她很容易受到惊吓。
Knowing how shockable the public is, I was very curious to see how the media would report the story. 我很好奇媒体会如何报道这个故事，因为公众很容易感到被冒犯。
See: shock
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- I thought of the least shockable person I know and I phoned her.
- She is everything her old mother is not: innocent, shockable, restrained, and domesticated.
- She always had seemed free; didn't care; wasn't shockable.