propensity

简单释义：

n.倾向；癖好；脾性

网络习性；嗜好；倾向性

变形：

复数：propensities  

完整释义：

n.

1.倾向; 癖好; 脾性

例句：

1. He may be waving a big stick at Albany, but he is speaking softly and, for now, seems to be avoiding Mr Spitzer's propensity to arrogance.
   他也许会对阿尔巴尼的政客们挥舞大棒，但是他态度婉转，旨在避免重蹈施皮策傲慢的覆辙。

2. Previous research has shown that our propensity towards generosity is only partly explained by our genes.
   之前的研究已经表明，我们倾向慷慨的习惯也仅仅只是部分能够用我们的基因来解释。

3. This forbidding figure speaks in the voice of your deepest doubt, your greatest fear or your own propensity to criticise yourself.
   这个难以接近的形象来自于你内心深处的质疑、你最大的恐惧或者“谴责自己”这一倾向。

4. Earth has a propensity to give of her information to "save" other creations, and this is how she has lost so much over time.
   地球拥有一个将自己的信息给出以“拯救”其它造物的倾向，这就是她怎么会随时间遗失了如此多东西的缘故。

5. Ongoing from that was a phase of a propensity for depression, for compulsion, for paranoia.
   那的确是一段抑郁，容易偏执钻牛角尖的日子。

6. This is, after all, the only industry whose propensity to failure seems to be as great as in the 19th century.
   毕竟，这是唯一一个失败倾向似乎与19世纪一样大的行业。

7. It would be too simplistic to put all of this down to a cultural propensity to defer to bullying corporate bosses.
   如果把这一切归结为一种听命于仗势欺人的公司老板的文化习性，那么就会过于简单了。

8. Since this propensity is genetically embedded on our brains, we have no way of preventing its manifestation.
   因为焦虑这种心理活动是深深植根于我们的大脑中的，我们没有办法阻止它不出现。

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