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

• 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。
• Predilection towards children is conniving them, which is adverse for their growth.
  回护孩子等于纵容孩子，这样做不利于孩子的成长。
• 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。
• 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。
• Accompany Tunes with Good Poems& The analysis of the method for Song s people to sing poems; When present in the mediastinum, they can be located in all mediastinal compartments, with a predilection for the anterior mediastinum.
  著腔子唱好诗&宋人歌诗方法分析淋巴管瘤可以在纵膈腔任何部位发生，但好发于前纵膈腔。
• 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
• The growing female predilection for wine seems at first glance like a harmless indulgence for harried mothers who deserve a break.
  越来越多的女性开始偏爱葡萄酒，乍看之下这对过着紧绷生活的妈妈们来说是无伤大雅的放纵，她们放松一下是应该的。
• Their predominant loci are the inferior vena cava and large veins of thighs. When present in the mediastinum, they can be located in all mediastinal compartments, with a predilection for the anterior mediastinum.
  最好发的部位是下腔静脉与大腿的大静脉。淋巴管瘤可以在纵膈腔任何部位发生，但好发于前纵膈腔。
• He has a predilection for rich food.
  他偏好油腻的食物。
• 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。