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

• 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。
• 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。
• She also instilled in him her predilection for new and rarely performed works.
  她还把自己对新作品和很少被表演的作品的偏好慢慢灌输给他。
• 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。
• 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。
• Analysis of Blood Flowing State and Parameter in the Predilection Site of Arteriosclerosis Obliterans
  动脉粥样硬化好发部位血液流态和参数分析
• 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。
• 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。
• Way to Compute Weight of Road Attribute in development of Intelligent Navigation Device Based on the Predilection of the Drivers
  基于驾驶员偏好的智能导航终端开发中的路网权值标定方法研究
• Pencroft, naturally, had some predilection for the retreat which he had discovered, but he well understood that another must be found.
  自然，潘克洛夫对自己找到的这个住所是有些偏爱的，可是他也知道必须另外找一个地方。