3be allergic to somethinginformal if you are allergic to something, you do not like it and try to avoid it – used humorously 不喜欢某事,对某事反感〔幽默用法〕
Most men are allergic to housework!
大多数男人都对做家务过敏!
Examples from the Corpus
be allergic to something• People who are allergic toeggs will probably be allergic to Egg Beaters since they contain egg white.• Alejandro was allergic togreys, particularly the whiter ones.• Some people are allergic toinsects.• Janice Bowers, the botanist and author, tells me that I might be allergic tomold.• A small number of people are allergic to nuts.• Many people who know they are allergic tostings carry an epinephrine shot with them.• Then I tried a different Durex, but I was allergic to them all.• Unless you are allergic to them, naturalfillings are preferable.
allergic reaction• As a result, more people became sensitized to latex and developed allergic reactions.• I kept her in my bedroom for another three weeks, so that Mum wouldn't have an allergic reaction.• Rod McCallum collapsed with a rareallergic reaction.• Philippa remembered Buerk's advice on severeallergic reactions and called an ambulance.• Nor did any allergic reactionsarise in those who ate the meat of animals who had been fed a gene-spliced soybean diet.• Put briefly, there was a kind of allergic reaction between On Location and the brand-newedition of Microsoft Word.• I talk about a rash on my arm that looks like an allergic reaction but is in fact the heartbreak of psoriasis.• Particles from dieselexhausts may also cause allergic reactions in their own right.