tendency
美 [ˈtendənsi] 
英 ['tendənsi]
词形变化
复数：tendencies 同义词
英汉双解
1. | [c] 倾向；偏好；性情if sb/sth has a particulartendency , they are likely to behave or act in a particular way |
| 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. 她天生小心谨慎。 |
2. | [c] ~ (for sb/sth) (to do sth).~ (to/towards sth) 趋势；趋向a new custom that is starting to develop |
| 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。 |
3. | [cspv] （政党内的）极端派别a group within a larger political group, whose views are more extreme than those of the rest of the group |
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例句
Besides, we found a tendency hat contrast sensitivity decreased as the severity of retinopathy increased.
此外，我们发现对比敏感度有随著视网膜病变严重程度而下降的趋势。
When I became a stay at home mom this natural tendency to be at home started reeking havoc on my moods and I was becoming a bit of a hermit.
当我成为一个居家妈妈后，这种自然而然的倾向开始破坏我的情绪，我变得有点遁世。
Even in this very beginning of a tendency to feel despondent he threw back his head, expanded his chest, and walked as briskly as ever.
就在刚觉得失望的时候，他把头一仰，挺出胸膛，象平常一般精神抖擞地走着。
This may be why Uranus's rings are slightly out of round: their self-gravity resists the tendency to smear into a circular band.
或许这就是为何天王星环不是那麽的圆：环内的重力在对抗要扩散成圆带的倾向。
Trivia He started acting when his mother sent him to acting camp due to his tendency to break out in song in public places.
他妈妈发现了他在公共场合歌唱的天赋，所以送他去参加了一个演戏的露营俱乐部，他就从那个时候开始了演艺生涯。
My husband, who was the captain of the patrol boys in the eighth grade, has a tendency to hold out his arms at the curb: stand back!
而我丈夫在八年级时是童子军队长，每每他会伸出手来抓住我：退后！
Good, even great for his age, but there may be a tendency to compare him to, say, Brendan Haywood .
很好，对于他的年龄甚至完美，但是可能有人会把他想成布兰顿海伍德。
'The world has had a tendency to focus a disproportionate amount of attention on me, ' Mr. Gates said at the time of the announcement.
盖茨在宣布这一决定时说，“世界将太多的注意力集中到了我的身上。”
The bottom shoulder tends to internally rotate as you revolve the chest upward so focus on turning it out to resist that tendency.
当你旋转胸部向上时肩膀的底部倾向于向内旋转，所以焦点放在向外旋转并抵消这种倾向。
There has always been a tendency for financial institutions to devote more attention to product innovation than to risk management.
一直以来，金融机构较多在产品创新上花心思，却较少重视风险管理。
In a slump there is no natural tendency for the rate of interest to fall, because people's desire to hoard money is increasing.
经济衰退时，利率不具有自然的下行倾向，因为人们囤积资金的欲望在增强。
Corporation farming accented the tendency toward integrated control and operation of two or more segments of the industry.
组合的农业企业都趋向于由两个或几个环节组成统一管理和作业。
The tendency of a person to allow himself to be degraded, robbed, deceived, and exploited might be the diffidence of a God amongst men.
一个人听凭自己堕落、被掠夺、被欺骗、被利用，这或许是缺乏自信的表现。
Indecision is often related to lack of self confidence and a tendency to worry about potential problems.
优柔寡断通常和缺乏自信和担心潜在问题有关。
But the general tendency in Sun specifications is to always maintain backward compatibility, or at least maintain it for quite a long time.
但是Sun规范总体趋向于始终维护向后兼容性，或至少在相当长的一段时间内维护向后兼容性。
Perhaps he knew that Archippus had a tendency to settle down in comfort and to take things easy.
也许他知道亚基布容易流于安逸和处事轻忽。
In the West, there seems to be a strong tendency over decades to view robots as something evil, like technology run amok.
数十年来，西方似乎有一股强大的趋势，将机器人视为某种邪恶的东西，像科技的暴走族横冲直撞。
The tendency of a person to allow himself to be degraded, robbed, deceived, and exploited might be the diffidence of a God among men.
一个人甘愿自己被侮辱、被抢劫、被欺骗、被剥削，这或许是一位神在人群中感到的胆怯。
Muzzle moderately pointed, avoiding any tendency to snipiness, and approximately equal in length to that of the top skull.
略微有点尖，不能象被截断的样子，长度大致与脑袋相等。
It's an insidious but frequent tendency to let the board decide, rather than advise or approve. It goes like this. . .
就是他们让董事会为他们做决定，而不是提供建议或赞同，这是个有害的且有频繁发生趋势的行为。
Corporation farming accented the tendency toward integrated control and operation of two or more segments of the industry.
组合的农业企业都趋向于由两个或几个环节组成统一管理和作业。
Maggie's hair had a natural tendency to curl, which her mother considered to be a great piece of good luck.
麦琪的头发具有天然的鬈曲美，母亲认为这是她的运气。
He also notices whether the bull runs straight or if he has a tendency to cut ground toward the man as he charges.
他还要看牛在冲击时是直线前进，还是要抄近路向人扑来。
The greater the number of protons, the greater is their tendency to blow the nucleus apart.
质子数越大，它们使核爆裂的倾向也就愈大。
Mixture of black powder and magnesium has a tendency to segregate.
黑药和镁的混合物具有离析的倾向。
Prices show an upward tendency.
物价趋涨。
This tendency, which was very marked in the nineteenth century, has also characterized American manufacturing in recent years.
这种趋势在19世纪时十分明显，近年也仍然是美国制造业的特点。
The world pattern appeared to be a complicated multipolar tendency of development, since the Cold War, when the confrontation between, U.
冷战结束后，以美、苏为首的两极对峙局势被打破，世界格局呈现了多维发展趋势，纷繁复杂。
The belief that society has an innate tendency toward improvement and that this tendency may be furthered through conscious human effort.
社会向善论认为社会具有变得更好的内在倾向和人类有力量促使其改善的信仰或学说
Dualism in its widest sense seems to be an inherent and ineradicable tendency of the Iranian mind.
二元论在其最广泛的意义似乎是一种固有的，根深蒂固的趋势伊朗铭记。
A chronic lack of sleep may cause far more serious problems than a tendency to nod off the next day, researchers warn.
科学家警告说，长期睡眠不足可导致的问题也许会比白天老打瞌睡更严重。
Whether this bipolarity of American attitudes will produce a tendency to future swings of public policy remains to be seen.
美国人态度的两极化是否会对未来公众政策的偏向趋势产生作用，我们将拭目以待。
"There was a tendency to shy away from the need to confront sexuality in its most transcendent aspiration and practice, " he said.
“回避对性力和性欲的需要已成为一种趋势”Ura指出。
"At least to the extent of my knowledge, " he said, when pressed about their ages and the tendency toward exaggeration on the Web.
当他在强调她们的年龄并有可能存在网上有虚报年龄的情况时，他说，至少以他的阅历来看不会。
Aesthetic value to the United States is the main social pursuit of the general tendency in the law a manifestation.
审美价值是社会主体对美的普遍追求倾向在法律中的体现。
it is only a case made based on a statistical tendency for such a size change, observed in a wide range of animals, a "rule. "
这不过是根据各种各样的动物的观察结果所得出的这类体格变化的统计规律“定律”罢了。
For all the presumed coolness on the surface, he had an instinctive tendency to put himself into the skins of others.
他表面上来虽然十分冷漠，但是他出于本能，总是愿意设身处地为别人着想。
All this had a tendency to keep us awake, and knock the traditional dullness out of garrison life.
这一切都足以使我们保持警惕，打破驻防生活一向的沉闷。
Some people say things like this to claim that any tendency is okay as long as you were born with it.
有些人会说这样的话，声称只要天性使然，任何倾向都没有问题。
Everyone has a particular body language, I suppose, or you know, a tendency towards a certain style.
我想每个人都有独特的身体语言，或特定的风格倾向。
Heavy foundation has a tendency to emphasize wrinkles and pores, and most women avoid it in favor of a bit of blush.
太厚的粉底可能会加重皱纹、增大毛孔，所以大部分法国女人尽量避免使用粉底，只是涂点腮红。
Her natural tendency to think divergently causes her to be disorganized and her house is always a mess.
她天生的大相径庭的思考方式令她思绪混乱，因此她住的房子总是杂乱无章。
One of the dangers of learning a new version of any language is the tendency to go crazy with new syntactical structures.
学习任何新版语言的一个危险就是疯狂使用新的语法结构。
TCC can arise anywhere in the urothelium, but is most common in bladder. TCC is often multifocal and has a tendency to recur.
泌尿道癌可发生于泌尿上皮覆盖的部位，最常见于膀胱，呈多灶性并常有复发的倾向。
Sometimes in the excitement leading up to sex, there is a tendency to reduce the time spent on foreplay or to skip it altogether.
有时那种直接导致性爱的激情，会减短花在前戏上的时间，甚至直接跳过前戏。
However, a vertical line sitting perpendicular to the top and bottom of the canvas has more of a tendency to convey a sense of height.
然而，与画布顶端和底端垂直的竖线往往更适于传递高度之感。
Maggie's hair had a natural tendency to curl, which her mother considered to be a great piece of good luck.
麦琪的头发具有天然的鬈曲美，母亲认为这是她的运气。
