tendency

['tendənsi]

n.趋势, 倾向, 秉性

例句与用法：

The belief that society has an innate tendency toward improvement and that this tendency may be furthered through conscious human effort.

社会向善论认为社会具有变得更好的内在倾向和人类有力量促使其改善的信仰或学说

His illness grew out of his tendency to overwork.

他的病是由于工作过度所致。

He had a tendency to shrink up whenever attention was focused on him.

当别人注意他时，他就会退缩一旁。

A tendency to revert to a former state.

反动希望回到过去状态的趋势

She has artistic tendencies.

她有艺术气质。

There is a growing tendency for people to work at home instead of in offices.

人们在家里而不是在办公室里工作的趋势日益增长。

词形变化：

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n.[C]

1. 倾向; 癖性; 天分[(+to/toward)][+to-v]

He has a tendency towards pessimism.

他有悲观的倾向。

Bob has a tendency to exaggerate things.

鲍勃有爱夸张的倾向。

2. 趋势, 潮流[(+to/toward)][+to-v]

There is a tendency towards regional cooperation.

有一种地区性合作的趋势。

3. 倾向; 意向

His new magazine has anarchic tendencies.

他的新杂志有无政府主义倾向。

4. 政治团体

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词义辨析：

同义:

n.倾向

inclination

leaning

bent

proclivity

disposition

aptitude

同义参见:

perspective

movement

vein

trend

tide

thing

temper

habit

grain

streak

tendency['tendənsi]n.1.■趋向，趋势，倾向2.■脾性；癖好；意向3.■(文学作品的)旨趣，旨意4.■(尤指持不同政见的左翼)政治团体5.■[口语][亦用复数]同性恋倾向近义词currentdrifttenortrend变形n.tendencies

1. an inclination towards a particular characteristic or type of behaviour
   趋势，趋向；倾向
   for students, there is a tendency to socialize in the evenings.
   晚上学生们倾向于聚在一起。
   criminal tendencies.
   犯罪倾向。
   ■a group within a larger political party or movement
   政治社团
   the dominant tendency in the party remained right-wing.
   党内占主导地位的依旧是右翼势力。
   

1. early 17th cent.: from medieval Latin tendentia, from tendere 'to stretch' (see tend)
   

tendency

名词 tendency:

an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others

同义词：inclination, disposition

an inclination to do something

同义词：leaning, propensity

a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect

同义词：inclination

a general direction in which something tends to move

同义词：trend

tendency

■The conditions in some schools have a tendency to improve.

一些学校的条件呈现改善趋势。

■An inclination, a tendency, or a preference.

一种倾向、趋势或爱好

■A downward tendency, as in the price of a stock.

下降趋势如股票价格等的下降趋势

■The tendency of evolving organisms to follow a trend is widespread.

不断进化的生物，基本上都有共同的进化趋势。

■Don't try to buck every new tendency.

不要和每个新潮流唱反调。

■The tendency towards true multipolarity is irreversible.

世界多极化趋势不可逆转。

■The conversion will be a tendency for kin enterprise in China.

中国的家族企业进行转型将成为一种趋势。

■Observe the process changing tendency from DCS.

中观察工艺变化趋势。

■To combat this tendency, Carlson rotated his top executives.

为了反对这种倾向，卡尔森轮换他的高级行政主管。

■Why occurs tendency of building energy saving around the world?

为什么世界上出现建筑节能的大潮流?

■Why invigorative does wrong person have suicidal tendency?

为什么有精神失常的人有自杀倾向？

■A habitual tendency or way of behaving.

习性一种习惯性的行为倾向或方式

■His country life developed the tendency in him.

乡居生活助长了他的这种怪癖。

■By all accounts, it was Mrs.Gorbachev's higher-pitched voice, professorial tone and tendency to lecture that got on Mrs.Reagan's nerves.

人人都说令里根夫人极为不快的，乃是戈尔巴乔夫夫人尖锐的噪音，教授讲学的语气，以及教训人的态势。

■There is a tendency to confuse intelligence with insight.

人们倾向于把智力和洞察力混为一谈。

■There is a growing tendency for people to work at home instead of in offices.

人们在家里而不是在办公室里工作的趋势日益增长。

■He's always had a tendency towards fast cars.

他一向喜欢速度快的汽车。

■They must overcome the tendency to seek the limelight.

他们必须克服爱出风头的倾向。

■The tendency was rather towards Deism.

他们总体趋向于是自然神论者：宇宙生生不息，自律自动，但是上帝是自然运动的第一推动力。

■They have a tendency to fill the picture space.

他们想要充实一下这个贴图专区。

■There is a growing tendency among them to accept this theory.

他们渐渐倾向于接受此种理论。

■They tried to stop the tendency of inflation.

他们设法阻止住了通货膨胀的势头。

■His tendency to utter acrimonious remarks alienated his audience.

他发表尖刻言论的倾向使得他的听众疏远了他。

■He was attracted to me because of my literary tendency.

他因为我有文学爱好而很愿接近我。

■He has a tendency to pop off, unwittingly offending many people.

他有信口开河的毛病，无意中得罪了不少人

■He has a tendency to pop off,unwittingly offending many people.

他有信口开河的毛病，无意中得罪了不少人。

■He has a tendency to forget things.

他有忘事的倾向。

■Compulsory legislation He has a tendency towards pessimism.

他有悲观的倾向。

■He has a tendency to oversell himself.

他爱自我吹嘘。

■His illness grew out of his tendency to overwork.

他的病是由于工作过度所致。

■His tendency to utter acrimonious remarks alienated his roomates.

他老是说话尖刻, 使同寝室的人和他疏远了。

■His tendency to utter acrimonious remarks alienated his roommates.

他老是说话尖刻，使同寝室的人和他疏远了。

■Prices have an upward tendency.

价格有上升的趋势。

■Any tendency to coarseness or weediness is undesirable.

任何粗劣的或是瘦弱的都是不受欢迎的。

■The Development Tendency of Occupational Pensions.

企业年金发展展望。

■Nevertheless, the tendency is there.

但是无论如何，这个倾向是有的。

■But the tendency to simplify blinds them to other alternatives.

但是这种简化倾向会他们对于其他的可选项视而不见。

■We are fully aware of the rising tendency in the word market.

你一定知道现在国际市场上涨的行情。

■You have a tendency toward melancholy and self-pity.

你有倾向变得忧郁跟自怜。

■You have a tendency to romanticize your life.

你有把生活浪漫化的倾向。

■Does your ego have a tendency to grow very, very large?

你的利己主义思想是否有逐渐增大的趋势?

■What is your occupation tendency?

你的职业倾向是什么？

■The tendency to cause rotation about a point or an axis.

使绕点或轴旋转的倾向。

■The state of being predisposed; tendency, inclination, or susceptibility.

倾向倾向于 ... 的状态; 趋势; 倾向或敏感性

■An innate inclination;a tendency.

倾向，特性内在的趋向;趋势

■An innate inclination; a tendency.

倾向，特性内在的趋向；趋势

■The falling tendency of export was curbed and began to pick up.

出口开始转升。

■A tendency has showed itself.

出现了一种倾向。

■Don't let him develop a tendency to an easy life.

别让他养成好逸恶劳的习惯。

■A tendency to revert to a former state.

反动希望回到过去状态的趋势