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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Ever since she was a child, she has had a predilection for spicy food.
  从孩提时起，她就偏好香辣的食物。
• He was a supporter of recently passed legislation that would help the defence department lower acquisition costs, partly by clamping down on the military's predilection for-and industry's tendency to build-expensive gold-plated technology instead of buying existing, lower-cost alternatives.
  最近通过的立法有助于国防部降低购置成本，他就是该立法的支持者。该立法部分打压了军队对昂贵镀金技术军工行业乐于为之的偏好，代之以购买现成的低成本替代品。
• 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。
• Is it reasonable, for example, to put a serious addiction like alcoholism in the same category as a predilection for cupcakes?
  比如，将严重的上瘾（如酗酒）与喜欢吃纸杯蛋糕划归到同一类中是否合理？
• China legal sense has a predilection for public power and the relationship between public power and private power has the phenomenon of inversion, unreality, behaving at will.
  中国的法治意识土壤中存在公权力偏好，在公权力和私权利关系上存在倒置、虚化和随意化现象。
• 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。
• He has a predilection for rich food.
  他偏好油腻的食物。