Predispose
[,priːdɪ'spəʊz] or ['pridɪ'spoz]
解释:
(v. t.) To dispose or incline beforehand; to give a predisposition or bias to; as, to predispose the mind to friendship.
(v. t.) To make fit or susceptible beforehand; to give a tendency to; as, debility predisposes the body to disease.
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同义词及近义词：
v. a. Incline, dispose, bias, fit, prepare, make ready.
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解释:
v.t. to dispose or incline beforehand: to render favourable.—adj. Predispō′sing inclining beforehand: making liable.—n. Predisposi′tion state of being predisposed or previously inclined: a state of body in which disease is easily excited.—adj. Predisposi′tional.
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例句:
- I have already had experience that my name does not predispose you to an interview; and I ventured to mention the name of one I am in search of. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- There was, indeed, so deep a blush over Fanny's face at that moment as might warrant strong suspicion in a predisposed mind. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- I was predisposed in your favour when you first told me of your conduct towards that unhappy woman whom you met under such remarkable circumstances. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Semi-starvation and neglected colds had predisposed most of the pupils to receive infection: forty-five out of the eighty girls lay ill at one time. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- However, we have discovered that there WAS a predisposing influence against you--and there is one uncertainty cleared out of our way, at any rate. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
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