predilection
英 [ˌpriːdɪˈlekʃn]
美 [ˌpredlˈekʃn]
n. 喜爱; 偏爱; 钟爱
BNC.18823 / COCA.18504
牛津词典
noun
- 喜爱;偏爱;钟爱
if you have a predilection for sth, you like it very much
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 爱好;偏爱;偏好
If you have apredilection forsomething, you have a strong liking for it.- ...his predilection for fast cars and fast horses.
他对跑车和骏马的偏爱
- ...his predilection for fast cars and fast horses.
英英释义
noun
- a predisposition in favor of something
- a predilection for expensive cars
- his sexual preferences
- showed a Marxist orientation
- a strong liking
- my own preference is for good literature
- the Irish have a penchant for blarney
双语例句
- This would explain my predilection for rapini, since my mother serves it every Thanksgiving.
这也许能解释为何我会对迷迭香情有独衷,这是因为我妈妈在每个感恩节都会做这道菜。 - He trundles through a variety of issues on which, thanks to his congressional testimony and other musings, his thoughts are both already generally available and infrequently startling to anyone familiar with his predilection for free markets.
他详细叙述了一系列问题。由于他的国会证词和其它一些言论,他的思想不仅已经广为传播,而且对于任何熟知他的自由市场立场的人而言,并不令人惊讶。 - He was a supporter of recently passed legislation that would help the defence department lower acquisition costs, partly by clamping down on the military's predilection for-and industry's tendency to build-expensive gold-plated technology instead of buying existing, lower-cost alternatives.
最近通过的立法有助于国防部降低购置成本,他就是该立法的支持者。该立法部分打压了军队对昂贵镀金技术军工行业乐于为之的偏好,代之以购买现成的低成本替代品。 - The most common cell type is squamous cell carcinoma, although gastrointestinal metastasis has a higher predilection for large cell carcinoma.
细胞形态以鳞状细胞癌总数最多,但以大细胞癌的胃肠道转移倾向最高。 - The theory of human nature supposition is an analysis and classification of human predilection of psychological behavior.
人性假设理论是对人的心理行为偏好的分析和归类。 - The predilection to blame business was manifest in one of President Barack Obama's recent speeches.
在巴拉克奥巴马(BarackObama)总统最近的一次演讲中,人们可以清楚地看出这种指责商界的倾向。 - There is nothing rigid in this early Chinese work, because the predilection for undulating lines imparts a sense of movement to the whole picture.
这幅中国早期作品中丝毫没有生硬之处,因为画中特别喜欢使用起伏的线条,这就赋予了整个画面一种运动感。 - This anomaly can be solved only by reforming the Chinese banking system's consumption-depressing predilection for lending to build export capacity.
要解决这种不正常局面,只有改革中国银行体系为出口产能的建设放贷、抑制消费的习惯。 - Accompany Tunes with Good Poems& The analysis of the method for Song s people to sing poems; When present in the mediastinum, they can be located in all mediastinal compartments, with a predilection for the anterior mediastinum.
著腔子唱好诗&宋人歌诗方法分析淋巴管瘤可以在纵膈腔任何部位发生,但好发于前纵膈腔。 - In the past decade China, with its predilection for irrational capital allocation, has been a big player in low tech, capital-intensive industries such as solar panel production.
过去10年里,存在非理性资本配置倾向的中国,一直在大力发展技术水平低的资本密集型产业,如太阳能电池板的生产。