Tendency

例句/造句/用法:

• Darwin's father was remarkable for his powers of observation, while the grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, is well known for his tendency to speculation . 李貝. 西洋科學史.
• I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
• We need no other explication of that esteem, which attends such of the natural virtues, as have a tendency to the public good. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
• The principal reason why natural abilities are esteemed, is because of their tendency to be useful to the person, who is possessed of them. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
• The traces of consumption may become fainter, or be wholly effaced: the inherent tendency to vice or crime may be eradicated. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
• As it has no tendency to diminish the quantity, it can have none to raise the price of that produce. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• But there is a tendency to seek the cause of such aimless activities in the youth's own disposition, isolated from everything else. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• Except where there is a disciplined disposition, the tendency is for the imagination to run loose. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• Curiosity is but the tendency to make these conditions perceptible. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• If you have a tendency toward mouth breathing, let a physician examine your nose and throat. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
• This changing focus in politics is a tendency at work all through our lives. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• We see this tendency to become striped most strongly displayed in hybrids from between several of the most distinct species. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
• But it had a preponderating tendency, when considered, to become fainter. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• Here was an economic tendency of revolutionary significance--the organization of business in a way that was bound to change the outlook of a whole nation. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• The increasing facilities of communication enhanced this tendency and depleted Dublin. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• These were but the outward and visible symbols of his westering tendencies. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
• Modern psychology has substituted for the general, ready-made faculties of older theory a complex group of instinctive and impulsive tendencies. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• With cats, for instance, one naturally takes to catching rats, and another mice, and these tendencies are known to be inherited. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
• The same tendencies apply with some modifications to the clothing of mankind. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
• I saw some, with naturally elevated tendencies and good feelings, kept down amongst sordid privations and harassing griefs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
• It was difficult to believe that Thomasin would be cheered by a husband with such tendencies as these. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• Similar tendencies had already appeared among the English Wycliffites. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
• Now Rawdon Crawley, rascal as the Colonel was, had certain manly tendencies of affection in his heart and could love a child and a woman still. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• A multitude whose tendencies could be perceived, though not its essences. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
• Or contrary tendencies in the child are appealed to to divert him from his troublesome line of behavior. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• And another is to see panic in the face of a failed bullfighter of Communist tendencies when I say, as a joke, I might kiss him. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.

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