propensity

[美國]/prəˈpensəti/
[英國]/prəˈpensəti/
詞頻: 非常高

中文釋義

n. tendency or habit
Word Forms

短語搭配

propensity towards violence

暴力傾向

propensity for risk-taking

冒險傾向

propensity for procrastination

拖延傾向

propensity to consume

消費傾向

marginal propensity

邊際傾向

例句

a propensity for exaggeration.

誇張的癖好

a propensity to extravagance

浪費的習性

He has a propensity for drinking too much alcohol.

他有酗酒的傾向。

she has a propensity for breaking plates.

她總會打破碟子。

This feedback effect jointly determines the optimal contract, the propensity of market manipulation and price informativeness.

這種反饋效應共同決定最優的合同,傾向操控市場和價格信息化。

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,再狹窄、感染、凝血、硬殼或者結石的形成仍然是支架植入術後容易發生的問題。

原聲例句

Most boys have a propensity of playing with machinery.

大多數的男孩子有玩機械的傾向。

來源: Liu Yi breaks through 10,000 English vocabulary words.

Civil servants have a documented propensity to, you know, snap.

人民公僕總是非常容易… … 動粗。

來源: The Big Bang Theory Season 1

Alexey always had a propensity for math, computers, and puzzles.

阿列克謝偏愛數學,電腦和智力遊戲。

來源: A Small Story, A Great Documentary

It suggests that what is being bred for is a propensity to develop a worm-hostile gut microbiome.

這表明,繁殖的目的是爲了培養一種對蠕蟲不利的腸道微生物羣。

來源: The Economist (Summary)

" Where does your propensity to work hard come from? "

“你努力工作的習性從何而來?”

來源: BBC Ideas Selection (Bilingual)

Bourgoin was once asked, in a television report, about this propensity for deception.

Bourgoin 曾在一次電視報道中被問及這種欺騙的傾向。

來源: The Guardian (Article Version)

So what is all this? My family history factoring in longevity, propensity for disease, et cetera. Interesting.

那這些是什麼 我家人的壽命長短 疾病傾向等信息 有意思。

來源: The Big Bang Theory Season 4

Although people's fundamental political views do not change much as they age, their propensity to vote does.

儘管人們的基本政治觀點不會隨着年齡的增長而發生較大改變,但是他們的投票傾向更定會有所變化。

來源: The Economist - Comprehensive

It was that propensity that led him to the creation of the best video game of all time.

正是他的這種喜好促成了他發明了這個一直飽受歡迎的電子遊戲。

來源: A Small Story, A Great Documentary

A propensity to bang the table or interrupt people is discourteous but plenty of bosses do the same.

拍桌子或打斷別人的習慣是不禮貌的,但許多老闆也這樣做。

來源: The Economist (Summary)

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