tendency
英['tendənsi] 美['tendənsi]
"he had an inclination to give up too easily"
"a tendency to be too strict"
"he felt leanings toward frivolity"
"the alkaline inclination of the local waters"
"fabric with a tendency to shrink"
"the shoreward tendency of the current"
"the trend of the stock market"
1.(令人焦虑或不快的)习惯，经常性行为，倾向
Atendency is a worrying or unpleasant habit or action that keeps occurring.
tendency的翻译
e.g. The army has become increasingly restless over the mounting separatist tendencies of the northern republics.
军方对于北方几个共和国不断加剧的分裂倾向感到越来越不安。
e.g. ...the government'stendency towards secrecy in recent years.
近年来政府的保密倾向
2.(性格中不良的)倾向，偏好
Atendency is a part of your character that makes you behave in an unpleasant or worrying way.
e.g. He is spoiled, arrogant and has atendency towards snobbery...
他被宠坏了，傲慢无礼，而且经常自命不凡。
e.g. Helen had been struggling against suicidal tendencies.
海伦一直在压制心里的自杀念头。
1.
1. 趋势：提野生动物人交配供了速率(Velocity),增殖(Increnment),速度(Rate),趋势(tendency)等生理学参数. 这对卫生,健康促进,儿童用品标准,预测征兵测量参数演变,国防用具标准化,计算宫内,医院内/外营养摘,制定个体化营养-喂养方案都具有重大理论和实践意义.
2. 倾向性：文章的作者一般都直接或间接地表达自己的论点(arguments)和倾向性(tendency), 并传达出相应的语调(tone),特别是在论说文中更是如此,很多作者通过主题句表达自己的论点,这样的文章比较容易理解.
There is a tendency towards regional cooperation.
有一种地区性合作的趋势。
There is a growing tendency for people to work at home instead of in offices.
人们在家里而不是在办公室里工作的趋势日益增长。
Today there is a tendency for people to opt out of social activity.
现在,越来越多的人倾向于不参加社会活动。
They tried to stop the tendency of inflation.
他们设法阻止住了通货膨胀的势头。
She has artistic tendencies.
她有艺术气质。
She has a strong natural tendency towards caution.
她天生喜欢小心谨慎。
to display artistic, etc. tendencies
显示出对艺术等的偏好
I have a tendency to talk too much when I'm nervous.
我紧张时总爱唠叨。
There is a tendency for this disease to run in families.
这种疾病易在家族里遗传。
She has a strong natural tendency towards caution.
她天生非常小心谨慎。
There is a growing tendency among employers to hire casual staff.
雇主雇用临时职员有增加的趋势。
The army has become increasingly restless over the mounting separatist tendencies of the northern republics.
军方对于北方几个共和国不断加剧的分裂倾向感到越来越不安。
...the government's tendency towards secrecy in recent years.
近年来政府的保密倾向
He is spoiled, arrogant and has a tendency towards snobbery...
他被宠坏了，傲慢无礼，而且经常自命不凡。
Helen had been struggling against suicidal tendencies.
海伦一直在压制心里的自杀念头。
The developing tendency of international petrochemical industry has been turned into clustering, intensivism and integration.
园区化、集约化、一体化已成为世界石油和化工发展之潮流.
Wood has a tendency to swell if it gets wet.
木头受潮之后容易膨胀.
From its physics function character, quality is inferior, and have descendent tendency.
从其物理性能而言, 质量较低, 且有下降的趋势.
Over the long haul, market prices have a tendency to ' revert the mean . '
长期而言, 市场价格有回归 均值 的趋向.
Elites who are held to answer for this tendency.
精英人士的回答亦持此倾向.
The tendency of minimalism holds a strong force field of modern architecture.
极少主义建筑思潮是当今建筑界的一股重要力量.
You just have a common, likeable tendency toward exaggeration.
你就是有个通常的, 很可能的趋向夸张.
There was an upward tendency in oil shares yesterday.
石油股票昨天有上涨的势头.
Prices have an upward tendency.
价格有上升的趋势.
The tendency still persists.
这种倾向一直存在.
If she showed any tendency to coquetry he would be apt to straighten her tie, or if she ' took up ' with him at all, to call her by her first name.
如果那女子露出点卖弄风情的品性,他就会上前去帮她理理领带, 如果她 ‘ 吃 ’ 他那一套献殷勤的手段, 他马上开始用小名称呼她了.
Prices continue to show an upward tendency.
物价呈继续上升的趋势.
Such a tendency is not to be encouraged.
此风不可长.
The tendency of events is towards peace.
大势趋向和平.
None of us know him well because he has a tendency to retire into himself.
他不大和别人交谈,所以我们大家都不怎么了解他.
Substances have no tendency to expand unless ( they are ) heated.
除非 受热,物质不会有膨胀的倾向.
He has a tendency to forget things.
他有忘事的倾向.
the tendency to see old people as asexual
认为老年人性缺乏的倾向
He has a tendency to oversell himself.
他爱自我吹嘘。
Suppressing any tendencies likely to lead to..disorderly forms of life.
出自：Isaiah BerlinShe had a tendency to become hysterical if she had to do anything unusual.
出自：G. Vidal