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

• 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
• He was a supporter of recently passed legislation that would help the defence department lower acquisition costs, partly by clamping down on the military's predilection for-and industry's tendency to build-expensive gold-plated technology instead of buying existing, lower-cost alternatives.
  最近通过的立法有助于国防部降低购置成本，他就是该立法的支持者。该立法部分打压了军队对昂贵镀金技术军工行业乐于为之的偏好，代之以购买现成的低成本替代品。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He has a predilection for rich food.
  他偏好油腻的食物。
• 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。
• 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。
• FOR a country with no particular predilection for fish, sushi is slowly but surely conquering Syria's capital, Damascus.
  虽然叙利亚人对鱼没有特殊的偏爱，寿司这种食物却正在逐渐入侵叙利亚的首都大马士革。
• 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。