propensity
[prə'pensiti]
n.倾向, 习性
例句与用法:
A disposition to feel, do, or say; a propensity.
意向感觉、做或说的意向; 倾向
A propensity for being displeased with anything that is not perfect or does not meet extremely high standards.
完美主义对于任何不完美或未达到最高标准的事都有不满意的倾向
词形变化:
名词复数: propensities |
n.[C]
1. (性格上的)倾向, 习性[S1][(+for/to/towards)][+to-v]
He recognized his own propensity to evil.
他承认自己生性喜作恶。
2. 【旧】癖好, 偏爱[(+for)]
propensity[prəu'pensiti]n.1.■倾向;爱好;嗜好;习性2.■[废语]赞同;倾向性变形n.propensities
propensitypropensity[prəˈpensiti]n.1.■倾向, 爱好, 嗜好, 脾性(to, for)income -ties所得倾向individual -ties个人(对储蓄及现在消费的)倾向a propensity to extravagance [for gambling]奢华[赌博]的癖好
(pl. -ies)
- an inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way
倾向,习性
she has a propensity for breaking plates.
她总会打破碟子。
[with infinitive]their innate propensity to attack one another.
他们互相攻击的内心习性。
- late 16th cent.: from archaic propense (from Latin propensus 'inclined', past participle of propendere, from pro- 'forward, down' + pendere 'hang') + -ity
propensity
名词 propensity:
an inclination to do something
a natural inclination
同义词:proclivity, leaning
a disposition to behave in a certain way
同义词:aptness
propensity
■T-bag:Yourll have to forgive my boy. He has the propensity to be a bit gregarious when he shouldnrt be. Fraternizing in the prison shower, come on.
"谅解这个孩子吧.他太恨搞接际了,还小在不太适合的时分.在监狱洗澡的时分念战人称弟道兄,得了吧"
■While genetic propensity has a lot to do with chances of outwitting this life stalking disease, so do mental and physical habits, all through life, but more so in mid-life.
(同样的,mental and physical habits 与genetic propensity相对应)遗传因素对战胜威胁人类的这种疾病的可能性有很大关系,但是一生中特别是中年时期的精神上、身体上的习惯也十分重要。
■While genetic propensity has a lot to do with chances of outwitting this life stalking disease, so domental and physical habits, all through life, but more so inmid-life.
(同样的,mental and physical habits 与geneticpropensity相对应)遗传因素对战胜威胁人类的这种疾病的可能性有很大关系,但是一生中特别是中年时期的精神上、身体上的习惯也十分重要。
■Mr. Bint has a propensity to put off decisions to the last minute.
Bint先生总把决定推到最后一分钟。
■A sedentary lifestyle increases the propensity to aging-related diseases and premature death.
“久坐不动的生活方式会增加患衰老相关疾病和夭亡的可能性。
■"But his news conference showcased once again his propensity for self-inflicted wounds" (Newsweek).
“但是他举行的记者招待会又一次暴露了他爱自己打自己耳光的倾向” (《新闻周刊》)。
■T-bag: You'll have to forgive my boy. He has the propensity to be a bit gregarious when he shouldn't be. Fraternizing in the prison shower, come on.
“原谅这个孩子吧。他太爱搞交际了,还老在不太合适的时候。在监狱洗澡的时候想和人称兄道弟,得了吧”
■"We don't have an answer to that right now," Walton said of the Lakers' propensity for blowing leads.
“现在我们还没有一个确切的答案,”沃顿在被问道湖人今年火爆的开局时说道。
■T-bag:You'll have to forgive my boy. He has the propensity to be a bit gregarious when he shouldn't be. Fraternizing in the prison shower, come on.
“谅解这个孩子吧。他太爱搞交际了,还老在不太适合的时候。在监狱洗澡的时候想和人称兄道弟,得了吧”
■This player makes you afraid and uncertain to begin with, so you'll have a propensity to get emotional.
一开始对手就让你感到害怕和不确定,你就会产生情绪起伏的倾向。
■Most boys have a propensity for playing with machinery.
一般的男孩子都有玩机械的习性。
■Not only is its global convergence proved easily hut also it avoids the propensity of short steps.
不仅其全局收敛性很容易被证明,而且它避免了产生小步长的倾向。
■This quite different view is based on the propensity of following points.
不同的看法基于以下几种观点。
■Whatever his intentions, the authors say, “it was Khrushchev's propensity to risk war that bedeviled US presidents” and made confrontation inevitable.
不管他的动机如何,作者写到:“正是赫鲁晓夫的那种冒险举动激怒了美国总统“,双方的冲突变得不可避免。
■Regardless of actual managerial risk propensity, managers with preferences for risk perceived their selected options to be riskier than those with safer preferences.
不考虑实际的管理者的风险倾向,与有安全意愿的管理者相比,有风险意愿的管理者感觉他们的选择的风险更多。
■For better or worse, gene-detecting microarrays could also identify an individual's genetic propensity to a host of disorders.
不论结果是好是坏,DNA微阵列除了可以探测基因的功能,也能够从基因层面辨认某人是否容易感染某些疾病。
■Nonetheless, he asked whether any of the patients ended up regretting their choice of surgery, given teenagers' propensity to change their mind.
不过,他提问说最后是否有病患后悔进行手术,应给青少年有改变心意的机会。
■Compared with traditional antiepileptic carbamazepine, oxcarbazepine shown an improved tolerability, a reduced propensity to cause liver enzyme induction and auto-induction.
与传统抗癫痫药物相比,奥卡西平有不良反应少、自身诱导及对肝药酶的诱导作用小等优点。
■A greater propensity for maintenance of reduction is likely in 2-part surgical neck fractures as opposed to those with associated fractures of the tuberosities.
与伴发结节骨折的患者不同,该技术能有效维持两部分外科颈骨折的复位。
■The long-term propensity to consume of Chinese citizens exists "Kuznets' Paradox", but the long-term propensity to consume of Chinese citizens trends lower.
中国城镇居民长期消费倾向存在“库兹涅茨悖论”,但中国城镇居民长期消费倾向偏低。
■China's important young market, a cultural propensity to link CSR and company image, and a highly vocal and active online population make CSR critical in China.
中国重要的年青人市场,把企业社会责任与企业形象联系起来的倾向,以及非常活跃且无话不说的网民,这些都使得企业社会责任在中国非常重要。
■Then, it is true, the propensity of human nature to tell the very worst of itself, when embodied in the person of another, would constrain them to whisper the black scandal of bygone years.
之后,出于人类本性中对别人说三道四的癖病,他们也确实悄声说起若干年前那桩见不得人的丑事。
■In fact, we have already assumed capitalist's Marginal propensity to consume is zero early. According to this assumption, we can reach the conclusion as above.
事实上,我们先前已经假定资本家的边际消费倾向为零。根据这个假定,我们可以很容易地得出上面的结论。
■Asia's propensity to save is engrained more by policy than by culture.
亚洲储蓄倾向的根深蒂固更多是由政策而非文化原因造成的。
■The general propensity of mankind
人之恒情
■The greater the propensity to hoard, the higher the interest rate that a businessman will have to pay for the capital that he requires for investment.
人们越是倾向于把钱自己存着不用,商人们就越要付更高的利息才能让人们把钱拿出来给自己用。
■Man's propensity for self-destruction is an unalterable rule of nature.Prosperity is inevitably followed by decline, just as life is followed by death.
人类之趋于自我毁灭,本是自然不变的法则,盈则必亏,生死循环,本来无可厚非。
■Humans inherited a propensity of deferring karma much like their Pleiadian and Sirian ancestors.
人类继承了延迟业力的倾向,就象他们的昴宿星及天狼星祖先一样。
■Coming out of North Carolina there were concerns about how May's propensity to put on weight may hurt his ability to be an effective NBA player.
从北卡罗那大学毕业的的肖恩梅日益增长的体重将会对他成为NBA一个不错的球员造成影响。
■This is understandable in one sense (they pay most of the taxes) but not in terms of stimulating the economy in the short term, since poorer people have a higher propensity to spend.
从某种意义上说这是可以理解的(他们承担大部分税赋),但从促进经济短期增长的角度出发却难以理解,因为越贫困才越需要支出。
■He has the propensity to be a bit gregarious when he shouldn't be.Fraternizing in the prison shower, come on.
他太恨搞接际了,借小正在没有太适合的时分。
■His propensity for [toward] wonder and adventure was growing constantly.
他对惊奇、冒险的癖好与日俱增。
■He recognized his own propensity to evil.
他承认自己生性喜作恶。
■He pointed out that since 2005 KT&G had exported to the US cigarettes with lowered ignition propensity, but had not sold such cigarettes in Gyeonggi province.
他指出,KT&G从2005年开始向美国出口低燃点卷烟,但是还没有在京畿省销售这种卷烟。
■He was a clever man; a pleasant companion; a careless student; with a great propensity for running into debt, and a partiality for the tavern.
他是个聪明人,谈吐非常风趣,可是不肯用苦功。他老是东借西挪,又喜欢上酒店喝酒。
■He has a propensity to self-subversion.
他有自我颠覆的癖好。
■He has a propensity for drinking too much alcohol.
他有酗酒的倾向。
■The one redeeming quality he showed was a propensity for getting to the line, averaging nine free throws a game.
他的表现能有所补偿的地方似乎倾向于罚球线,场均能有9个罚篮。
■He was shorter than I expected and had a deeply furrowed face which betrayed a lifelong propensity toward smiling.
他看起来,比我想象中的个子还要小,一张布着深纹的脸和爱笑的个性不太相称。
■He said that Monday's session has also been a prime example of oil's increasing propensity to take its cues from the direction of the stock market, especially the S&P 500.
他说,周一的走势也充分显示出,石油价格越来越有从股市、尤其是标准普尔500指数的走势中寻找线索的倾向。
■But there are those who yearn for the Divine here and now and whose love for God and propensity for the contemplation of the Divine Realities (al-haqaiq) compel them to seek the path of inwardness.
伊斯兰的启示意味着人类注定要遵守这一传统信仰。但不是所有的人都要去遵守内在的道乘。
■They do know that the propensity for allergies can be genetic.
但他们知道,过敏症的易感倾向可能与遗传有关。
■Nonetheless, research dating back to 1998 indicates a high propensity for people to buy in their own language.
但无论如何,早在1998年的研究就指出人们高度倾向于购买使用母语的产品。
■However, this technique continues to be characterized by its propensity t o elicit passive results, such as restenosis, inflammation, thrombopoiesis, form ation of encrustation or stone.
但是,再狭窄、感染、凝血、硬壳或者结石的形成仍然是支架植入术后容易发生的问题。
■However, this technique continues to be characterized by its propensity to elicit passive results, such as restenosis, inflammation, thrombopoiesis, formation of encrustation or stone.
但是,再狭窄、染、血、壳或者结石的形成仍然是支架植入术后容易发生的问题。
■But his news conference showcased once again his propensity for self - inflicted wounds (Newsweek).
但是他举行的记者招待会又一次暴露了他爱自己打自己耳光的倾向(《新闻周刊》)。
■But it may explain how people with apparently similar lifestyles differ in propensity to put on weight.
但是它可能解释相同生活方式的人们却有不同的增加体重的倾向。
■Logistic regression was used to determine the propensity score (probability of MDC) for each patient, and MDC and non-MDC patients then were matched 1:1 on the basis of their score.
使用逻辑回归方法确定每例患者的趋势积分(多学科治疗的概率),然后将MDC和非MDC患者按照其积分以1:1的比例进行配对。
■Electrons around a molecule, for example, exist in wavelike orbitals, smeared-out shapes that determine properties such as the electrons' energy and the propensity for the molecule to undergo various chemical reactions.
例如,电子便是以波动般的轨道绕著分子运行,从它所遗留下来的轨迹形状,便可以决定电子的能量,以及分子在各种化学反应时所具有的特性。
■A tendency or propensity.
倾向,嗜好