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

• 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
• 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。
• They did not find a similar linkage in girl, nor did they find that committing crimes had any impact on entrepreneurial predilection.
  研究人员在女性青少年中没有发现类似的相关性，他们也没有发现犯罪对创业偏好有任何影响。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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 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。