Predilection
[,prɛdl'ɛkʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a predisposition in favor of something; 'a predilection for expensive cars'; 'his sexual preferences'; 'showed a Marxist orientation'.
校對:奥斯瓦德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor of something; predisposition to choose or like; partiality.
整理:莱昂内尔
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Prepossession (in favor of), partiality, preference, inclination, liking, fondness, love.
丹尼校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Prepossession, preference, leaning, liking, fondness, bias, inclination,predisposition, tendency, prejudice, partiality
ANT:Prejudice, aversion, indisposition, antipathy, disinclination, apathy
編輯:曼纽尔
解釋/意思:
n. a choosing beforehand: favourable prepossession of mind: partiality.—v.t. Predilect′ to prefer.
整理:肯尼思
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. The preparatory stage of disillusion.
手打:波莉
例句/造句/用法:
- I have not so much as the slightest predilection left. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I saw you matched against an Apollyon of a predilection; you fought a good fight, and you overcame! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- They seem, however, to have some predilection for the latter. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The predilections of the inexhaustible baby being provided for, Bella could think of nothing else. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
校對:赛克