leanings

英 [ˈliːnɪŋz]

美 [ˈlinɪŋz]

n.  倾向; 偏向; 爱好
leaning的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 倾向；偏向；爱好
  Your particularleaningsare the beliefs, ideas, or aims you hold or a tendency you have towards them.
  1. During the war his pacifist leanings were not helpful.
     战时他的和平主义思想派不上用场。
  2. I always had a leaning towards sport.
     我一向喜欢运动。

双语例句

• Working towards a common goal of creating new companies should be an aspiration for everyone, no matter what their political stripes or leanings may be, or where they live.
  创建工作迈向新公司的共同目标应该是每个人的愿望，不管其政治倾向的条纹或可能，或者他们住在那里。
• It will depend on the political leanings of the new committee members.
  这将取决于新的委员会成员们的政治倾向。
• During the war his pacifist leanings were not helpful.
  战时他的和平主义思想派不上用场。
• If I eat the same food, have same musical, literary and dramatic basis and the same etiquette as my Catholic friend, me and him are of the same culture, regardless of my religious leanings.
  如果我跟我的天主教朋友吃同样的食物，音乐、文学和戏剧基础和礼仪规范也完全相同，那么即使我们有着不同的宗教倾向，我们的文化也是相同的。
• Students of literature and history, may have stronger intellectual leanings, often study religion as an intellectual pursuit. therefore, they may accept religion less readily.
  但学文史的人可能有一种知识分子的习性，把宗教当学问来研究，反而不易接受宗教。
• Her Western background and academic training combined with her spiritual leanings give Wreford an insight into both the physical and psychological impacts of HIV/ AIDS.
  她的西方背景和学术训练与她在精神上的倾向结合起来，这让她可以一窥艾滋病在生理和心理两方面的影响。
• If you have any artistic leanings, this aspect helps your expression become more salable.
  如果你有任何的艺术倾向，这相位让你的表现变得更有出路。
• But for all of his billions of dollars, technological genius and philanthropic leanings, the co-founder of Facebook remains a very, very bad dresser.
  坐拥数十亿身家，拥有非凡的技术天赋，还热衷慈善，但这位脸谱网站创始人的着装品味实在不敢让人恭维。
• Indeed there is almost a danger that Mr Sarkozy's Atlanticist leanings have raised expectations unrealistically high in Washington and London.
  萨尔科齐先生的大西洋主义倾向名不副实地抬高了华盛顿和伦敦的期望，这确实差不多是个危险。
• The testimony of his contemporaries attests to this, and certainly the known facts of his life confirm his leanings toward the metaphysical and the mystical.
  和他同时代的人公认他对玄学和神秘主义的偏爱，他的一生也充分证实了这一点。