predilection

英 [ˌpriːdɪˈlekʃn]

美 [ˌpredlˈekʃn]

n.  喜爱; 偏爱; 钟爱

复数：predilections　

GRE

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.
  1. ...his predilection for fast cars and fast horses.
     他对跑车和骏马的偏爱

英英释义

noun

• a predisposition in favor of something
  1. a predilection for expensive cars
  2. his sexual preferences
  3. showed a Marxist orientation
  Synonym:preferenceorientation
• a strong liking
  1. my own preference is for good literature
  2. the Irish have a penchant for blarney
  Synonym:preferencepenchanttaste

双语例句

• This film director has always had a predilection for gratuitous violence.
  这位电影导演一直偏好天生的暴力。
• The growing female predilection for wine seems at first glance like a harmless indulgence for harried mothers who deserve a break.
  越来越多的女性开始偏爱葡萄酒，乍看之下这对过着紧绷生活的妈妈们来说是无伤大雅的放纵，她们放松一下是应该的。
• He has a predilection for rich food.
  他偏好油腻的食物。
• 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。
• China legal sense has a predilection for public power and the relationship between public power and private power has the phenomenon of inversion, unreality, behaving at will.
  中国的法治意识土壤中存在公权力偏好，在公权力和私权利关系上存在倒置、虚化和随意化现象。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。