tendency 词态变化
复数: tendencies;
tendency 中文词源
tendency 倾向，趋势tend-,延伸，伸长，-ency,状态名词后缀。
tendency 英文词源
- tendency (n.)
- 1620s, from Medieval Latin tendentia "inclination, leaning," from Latin tendens, present participle of tendere "to stretch, extend, aim" (see tenet). Earlier in same sense was tendaunce (mid-15c.), from Old French tendance.
tendency 英文释义
- 1. an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others;
- "he had an inclination to give up too easily"
- "a tendency to be too strict"
- 2. an inclination to do something;
- "he felt leanings toward frivolity"
- 3. a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect;
- "the alkaline inclination of the local waters"
- "fabric with a tendency to shrink"
- 4. a general direction in which something tends to move;
- "the shoreward tendency of the current"
- "the trend of the stock market"
tendency 同义词解析
trend, tendency, current
这些名词均含"趋势，倾向"之意。
trend： 指事物发展总的方向、倾向或趋势。
tendency： 指固有或习得的倾向性，强调没有外来的影响或干扰。
current： 指向某一方面发展或在趋向中行动。
tendency 双语例句
- 1. Stewart has developed a tendency to mix it verbally with the opposition.
- 斯图尔特现在变得只要和别人意见不合，就准备大吵一架。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. They have a tendency to try to sidetrack you from your task.
- 他们总试图让你从你的任务中分心。
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- 3. They have a tendency to show off, to dramatize almost every situation.
- 他们爱炫耀，几乎对每种情况都添油加醋。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Parks has a tendency to become personally involved with his photographic subjects.
- 帕克斯往往会跟他的拍摄对象产生感情纠葛。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. 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。
来自柯林斯例句
tendency 实用场景例句
- to display artistic, etc. tendencies
- 显示出对艺术等的偏好
牛津词典
- I have a tendency to talk too much when I'm nervous.
- 我紧张时总爱唠叨。
牛津词典
- There is a tendency for this disease to run in families.
- 这种疾病易在家族里遗传。
牛津词典
- She has a strong natural tendency towards caution.
- 她天生非常小心谨慎。
牛津词典
- 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。
牛津词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...the government's tendency towards secrecy in recent years.
- 近年来政府的保密倾向
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Helen had been struggling against suicidal tendencies.
- 海伦一直在压制心里的自杀念头。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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.
期刊摘选
- Wood has a tendency to swell if it gets wet.
- 木头受潮之后容易膨胀.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Elites who are held to answer for this tendency.
- 精英人士的回答亦持此倾向.
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- 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.
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- 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.
电影对白
- There was an upward tendency in oil shares yesterday.
- 石油股票昨天有上涨的势头.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Prices have an upward tendency.
- 价格有上升的趋势.
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- The tendency still persists.
- 这种倾向一直存在.
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- 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.
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- Prices continue to show an upward tendency.
- 物价呈继续上升的趋势.
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- Such a tendency is not to be encouraged.
- 此风不可长.
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- The tendency of events is towards peace.
- 大势趋向和平.
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- 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.
《简明英汉词典》
- Substances have no tendency to expand unless ( they are ) heated.
- 除非 受热,物质不会有膨胀的倾向.
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- He has a tendency to forget things.
- 他有忘事的倾向.
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- the tendency to see old people as asexual
- 认为老年人性缺乏的倾向
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- He has a tendency to oversell himself.
- 他爱自我吹嘘。
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