predispositions

英 [ˌpriːdɪspəˈzɪʃənz]

美 [ˌpridɪspəˈzɪʃənz]

n.  倾向; 癖性; (易患某种病的)体质
predisposition的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 倾向；禀性
  If you have apredisposition tobehave in a particular way, you tend to behave like that because of the kind of person that you are or the attitudes that you have.
  1. ...a woman's predisposition to use the right side of her brain...
     女性使用右脑的倾向
  2. There is a thin dividing line between educating the public and creating a predisposition to panic.
     对公众进行教育和制造恐慌倾向之间没有明显的分界。
• N-COUNT （易患某种疾病的）倾向，体质
  If you have apredisposition toa disease or illness, it is likely that you will suffer from that disease or illness.
  1. ...a genetic predisposition to lung cancer.
     易患肺癌的遗传倾向

双语例句

• Glaucomatous neurodegeneration involves specific combinations of genetic predispositions, epigenetic risk factors, and environmental stressors that increase the aging-related stress in retinal ganglion cells ( RGCs) and optic nerve axons.
  青光眼的神经退行性病变发生在视网膜神经节细胞及视神经轴突，涉及先天遗传倾向，后天危险因素以及与年龄增长相关的环境刺激。
• This suggests that the sorts of predispositions that in people are blamed on fetal testosterone are caused in birds by fetal oestrogen ( or, rather, the response to it).
  这就表示，人类的易患病体制归咎于胎儿睾丸激素，但对于鸟类而言，却是由胎儿丝雌激素引起的。（或者说，是对雌激素的反应）。
• In order to obtain a better learn of advanced technique from foreign countries, college students should have the ability of translating specialized English which has become one of prerequisite predispositions.
  为了更好地学习国外的先进技术，专业英语的翻译能力已经成为高校学生必备的素质之一。
• Designers work to envision and create spaces, systems, languages, tools and infrastructure that afford specific kinds of relationships and predispositions towards each other and our world.
  设计师们致力于想象和创造空间、体系、语言、工具及基础设施，为每个人和我们这个世界提供特定的关系与倾向。
• In the view of RR Model, human innate predispositions toward language lead to the build-up of initial I-representations of language that are implicit, with language acquisition standing apart from cognition.
  RR模型认为，先天的语言倾向使人建立起初始的I语言表征，此时信息是内隐的，语言习得分立于一般人类认知；
• Arrogances are genetic patterns and predispositions.
  傲慢态度是遗传基因模式及预设的。
• Therefore those who are limited in ascension or choose to limit themselves due to such predispositions are serving one's entire species in doing so.
  因此，那些由于这类预设而被限制提升，或选择自己限制提升的人们，正在服务于整个物种。
• Naturally no critical predispositions to any major inheritable diseases.
  当然不会有危险疾病遗传的倾向。
• If we wish to find out the truth of a matter, we must approach the question with as nearly open a mind as we can and with a deep awareness of our own limitations and predispositions.
  如果我们希望查明一件事情的真相，我们就必须尽可能地以开放的心态看待问题，并且要充分意识到我们自己的局限性和倾向性。
• Also, everyone is born with certain predispositions – they may be partly genetic, they may be other things.
  同时，每个人天生就携带着某些特质这些特质也许部分是遗传的，也可能源自其它。