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词典释义:
propensity
时间: 2023-10-05 14:56:04
托福GRE
英 [prəˈpensəti]
美 [prəˈpensəti]

n. 倾向;习性

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双语例句
  • His propensity for violence makes her scared.

    他的暴力倾向使她感到害怕。

  • This woman wanted her husband to get rid of his propensity for drinking too much alcohol.

    这个女人希望她的丈夫戒掉酗酒的毛病。

  • His sexual propensity is a bit hard to talk about.

    他的性癖好有点难以启齿。

  • He showed a propensity for violence.

    他表现出暴力倾向

  • One of his downfalls is his propensity to lie his way out of personal difficulties.

    他越混越差的其中一个原因是他面对个人问题总爱撒谎试图脱身。

  • He said that he was not bothered by his supervisor’s propensity to be late.

    他说他上司一直迟到他无所谓。

  • During hot days, he had a propensity for walking around in just his underwear.

    在天热的时候,他喜欢只穿内衣走来走去。

  • He showed a propensity for violence.

    他表现出暴力倾向。

  • Mr. Bint has a propensity to put off decisions to the last minute.

    宾特先生有一种将决定拖到最后一分钟的倾向。

  • She has a propensity to exaggerate.

    她爱言过其实。

  • Do online daters have a propensity to lie?

    网上交友者是否倾向于撒谎?

  • That slope is the marginal propensity to consume.

    这个斜率就是边际消费倾向。

近义词
释义
n.

an inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way

倾向,习性

  • she has a propensity for breaking plates

    她总会打破盘子

  • [with infinitive]their innate propensity to attack one another.

    他们互相攻击的天生习性。

词源

"late 16th cent.: from archaic propense (from Latin propensus ‘inclined',past participle of propendere,from pro- ‘forward,down'+pendere ‘hang’)+-ITY."

  • And your defect is a propensity to hate every body.

    对什么人都感到厌恶,这就是你的缺陷。

    《傲慢与偏见》

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