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

• 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 explained her predilection for chiffon scarves.
  这说明了她偏爱薄绸围巾的原因。
• The theory of human nature supposition is an analysis and classification of human predilection of psychological behavior.
  人性假设理论是对人的心理行为偏好的分析和归类。
• 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。
• He has a predilection for rich food.
  他偏好油腻的食物。
• 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。
• Ever since she was a child, she has had a predilection for spicy food.
  从孩提时起，她就偏好香辣的食物。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。