Predispose
[,priːdɪ'spəʊz] or ['pridɪ'spoz]
解釋/意思:
(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.
凯思琳校對
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Incline, dispose, bias, fit, prepare, make ready.
爱丽丝錄入
解釋/意思:
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.
塞西莉亚校對
例句/造句/用法:
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- There was, indeed, so deep a blush over Fanny's face at that moment as might warrant strong suspicion in a predisposed mind. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- 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. 威爾基·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. 簡·愛.
- 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. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
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