Predilection
[,prɛdl'ɛkʃən]
解释:
(noun.) a predisposition in favor of something; 'a predilection for expensive cars'; 'his sexual preferences'; 'showed a Marxist orientation'.
校对:奥斯瓦德--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality.
整理:莱昂内尔
同义词及近义词：
n. Prepossession (in favor of), partiality, preference, inclination, liking, fondness, love.
丹尼校对
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Prepossession, preference, leaning, liking, fondness, bias, inclination,predisposition, tendency, prejudice, partiality
ANT:Prejudice, aversion, indisposition, antipathy, disinclination, apathy
编辑:曼纽尔
解释:
n. a choosing beforehand: favourable prepossession of mind: partiality.—v.t. Predilect′ to prefer.
整理:肯尼思
娱乐性解释：
n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.
手打:波莉
例句:
- I have not so much as the slightest predilection left. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- I saw you matched against an Apollyon of a predilection; you fought a good fight, and you overcame! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- They seem, however, to have some predilection for the latter. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Even had that not been so, the inclinations of the boy barely ten years old were toward chemistry, and fifty years later there is seen no change of predilection. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- To which it may be added that not less equally have the nature of inheritance and the quality of atavism been exhibited in his extraordinary predilection for the miller's art. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The predilections of the inexhaustible baby being provided for, Bella could think of nothing else. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
校对:赛克