leanings

英 [ˈliːnɪŋz]

美 [ˈlinɪŋz]

n.  倾向; 偏向; 爱好
leaning的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 倾向；偏向；爱好
  Your particularleaningsare the beliefs, ideas, or aims you hold or a tendency you have towards them.
  1. During the war his pacifist leanings were not helpful.
     战时他的和平主义思想派不上用场。
  2. I always had a leaning towards sport.
     我一向喜欢运动。

双语例句

• It seems that Coudroy had socialist leanings, and Bastiat began to refine his skills in clear thinking and writing by formulating the arguments that finally won over his friend to a philosophy of freedom.
  当库德罗伊似乎有社会主义倾向是，巴斯夏开始完善自己的技能，用清晰的思想和著作溶解争议，最终把他的朋友转变成了一位自由主义者。
• Her Western background and academic training combined with her spiritual leanings give Wreford an insight into both the physical and psychological impacts of HIV/ AIDS.
  她的西方背景和学术训练与她在精神上的倾向结合起来，这让她可以一窥艾滋病在生理和心理两方面的影响。
• It will depend on the political leanings of the new committee members.
  这将取决于新的委员会成员们的政治倾向。
• Critics who accuse the government of having reverted to its old socialist leanings of the1970s are plainly wrong.
  评论家指责政府政策回到了1970年代的老式社会主义倾向，这是完全错误的。
• Working towards a common goal of creating new companies should be an aspiration for everyone, no matter what their political stripes or leanings may be, or where they live.
  创建工作迈向新公司的共同目标应该是每个人的愿望，不管其政治倾向的条纹或可能，或者他们住在那里。
• Those who had been prompted to think about choices, regardless of their own political leanings, expressed less support for the equalizing policies.
  那些一开始就要求关注“做选择”的参与者，不管各自的政治立场是什么，都表示不怎么赞同这项旨在促进的公平的政策。
• The testimony of his contemporaries attests to this, and certainly the known facts of his life confirm his leanings toward the metaphysical and the mystical.
  和他同时代的人公认他对玄学和神秘主义的偏爱，他的一生也充分证实了这一点。
• If others don't display their political leanings, it may be unofficially frowned upon.
  如果别人都没有公布自己的政治倾向，那就可能政治话题在公司是不被接受的。
• Hugo's father was a general in the Napoleonic army with republican sympathies while his middle-class mother had royalist leanings.
  雨果的爸爸曾是拿破仑军队的一名将军，是共和制的支持者，而他中产阶级的妈妈则有保皇主义的倾向。
• Fath's parents tried to curb his artistic leanings and sent him to business school, where he studied bookkeeping.
  法特赫的父母试图阻止他朝艺术发展，并把他送到商学院去念书，在那里他研究账本。