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

• He has a predilection for rich food.
  他偏好油腻的食物。
• The predilection to blame business was manifest in one of President Barack Obama's recent speeches.
  在巴拉克奥巴马（BarackObama）总统最近的一次演讲中，人们可以清楚地看出这种指责商界的倾向。
• 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。
• 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。
• This film director has always had a predilection for gratuitous violence.
  这位电影导演一直偏好天生的暴力。
• 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。
• There is nothing rigid in this early Chinese work, because the predilection for undulating lines imparts a sense of movement to the whole picture.
  这幅中国早期作品中丝毫没有生硬之处，因为画中特别喜欢使用起伏的线条，这就赋予了整个画面一种运动感。
• 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
• 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。