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

• Moreover, the Chinese predilection for investment-led remedies for deficient demand means that most of the external benefit will accrue to energy and commodity producers.
  另外，中国倾向于用投资拉动来弥补需求不足的问题，这意味着，能源和大宗商品制造国将收获绝大部分的外部收益。
• 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。
• An approach of diabetic foot ulcers nature and its predilection site
  糖尿病足溃疡的性质及好发部位分析
• 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？
• 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
• 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。
• In the past decade China, with its predilection for irrational capital allocation, has been a big player in low tech, capital-intensive industries such as solar panel production.
  过去10年里，存在非理性资本配置倾向的中国，一直在大力发展技术水平低的资本密集型产业，如太阳能电池板的生产。
• 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 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。