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
- 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。 - 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。 - Is it reasonable, for example, to put a serious addiction like alcoholism in the same category as a predilection for cupcakes?
比如,将严重的上瘾(如酗酒)与喜欢吃纸杯蛋糕划归到同一类中是否合理? - Eccrine poroma is a benign adnexal skin tumor seen in middle aged individuals with no sex predilection.
汗孔瘤是发生于皮肤的良性附属器肿瘤,中年人多见,无性别倾向。 - FOR a country with no particular predilection for fish, sushi is slowly but surely conquering Syria's capital, Damascus.
虽然叙利亚人对鱼没有特殊的偏爱,寿司这种食物却正在逐渐入侵叙利亚的首都大马士革。 - 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。 - Their predominant loci are the inferior vena cava and large veins of thighs. When present in the mediastinum, they can be located in all mediastinal compartments, with a predilection for the anterior mediastinum.
最好发的部位是下腔静脉与大腿的大静脉。淋巴管瘤可以在纵膈腔任何部位发生,但好发于前纵膈腔。 - Although histologically benign, tufted angioma may be disfiguring because of the disease's potential for infinite proliferation and a predilection for the head and neck.
虽然簇集样血管瘤病理学上属于良性肿瘤,临床上生长的部位和持续增生的特性,仍可能造成功能及外表的缺陷。 - 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。 - 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。