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
• 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。
• Predilection towards children is conniving them, which is adverse for their growth.
  回护孩子等于纵容孩子，这样做不利于孩子的成长。
• Objective: Enunciating the characteristics of concrete blood flowing state and parameter in the predilection site of arteriosclerosis obliterans, and providing theoretical basis for deep study.
  目的：阐明动脉粥样硬化好发部位血液的具体流态和参数特点，为深入研究提供理论依据。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• This would explain my predilection for rapini, since my mother serves it every Thanksgiving.
  这也许能解释为何我会对迷迭香情有独衷，这是因为我妈妈在每个感恩节都会做这道菜。
• 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。