predilection

noun

1. 喜爱；偏爱；钟爱
   if you have a predilection for sth, you like it very much

1. N-COUNT 爱好；偏爱；偏好
   If you have a predilection for something, you have a strong liking for it.
   1. ...his predilection for fast cars and fast horses.
      他对跑车和骏马的偏爱

1. They did not find a similar linkage in girl, nor did they find that committing crimes had any impact on entrepreneurial predilection.
   研究人员在女性青少年中没有发现类似的相关性，他们也没有发现犯罪对创业偏好有任何影响。
2. There is nothing rigid in this early Chinese work, because the predilection for undulating lines imparts a sense of movement to the whole picture.
   这幅中国早期作品中丝毫没有生硬之处，因为画中特别喜欢使用起伏的线条，这就赋予了整个画面一种运动感。
3. In the past decade China, with its predilection for irrational capital allocation, has been a big player in low tech, capital-intensive industries such as solar panel production.
   过去10年里，存在非理性资本配置倾向的中国，一直在大力发展技术水平低的资本密集型产业，如太阳能电池板的生产。
4. The growing female predilection for wine seems at first glance like a harmless indulgence for harried mothers who deserve a break.
   越来越多的女性开始偏爱葡萄酒，乍看之下这对过着紧绷生活的妈妈们来说是无伤大雅的放纵，她们放松一下是应该的。
5. The most common cell type is squamous cell carcinoma, although gastrointestinal metastasis has a higher predilection for large cell carcinoma.
   细胞形态以鳞状细胞癌总数最多，但以大细胞癌的胃肠道转移倾向最高。
6. This film director has always had a predilection for gratuitous violence.
   这位电影导演一直偏好天生的暴力。
7. This explained her predilection for chiffon scarves.
   这说明了她偏爱薄绸围巾的原因。
8. Their predominant loci are the inferior vena cava and large veins of thighs. When present in the mediastinum, they can be located in all mediastinal compartments, with a predilection for the anterior mediastinum.
   最好发的部位是下腔静脉与大腿的大静脉。淋巴管瘤可以在纵膈腔任何部位发生，但好发于前纵膈腔。
9. Predilection towards children is conniving them, which is adverse for their growth.
   回护孩子等于纵容孩子，这样做不利于孩子的成长。
10. He was a supporter of recently passed legislation that would help the defence department lower acquisition costs, partly by clamping down on the military's predilection for-and industry's tendency to build-expensive gold-plated technology instead of buying existing, lower-cost alternatives.
    最近通过的立法有助于国防部降低购置成本，他就是该立法的支持者。该立法部分打压了军队对昂贵镀金技术军工行业乐于为之的偏好，代之以购买现成的低成本替代品。
11. He has a predilection for rich food.
    他偏好油腻的食物。
12. Accompany Tunes with Good Poems& The analysis of the method for Song s people to sing poems; When present in the mediastinum, they can be located in all mediastinal compartments, with a predilection for the anterior mediastinum.
    著腔子唱好诗&宋人歌诗方法分析淋巴管瘤可以在纵膈腔任何部位发生，但好发于前纵膈腔。
13. Ever since she was a child, she has had a predilection for spicy food.
    从孩提时起，她就偏好香辣的食物。
14. Although histologically benign, tufted angioma may be disfiguring because of the disease's potential for infinite proliferation and a predilection for the head and neck.
    虽然簇集样血管瘤病理学上属于良性肿瘤，临床上生长的部位和持续增生的特性，仍可能造成功能及外表的缺陷。
15. Pencroft, naturally, had some predilection for the retreat which he had discovered, but he well understood that another must be found.
    自然，潘克洛夫对自己找到的这个住所是有些偏爱的，可是他也知道必须另外找一个地方。
16. This would explain my predilection for rapini, since my mother serves it every Thanksgiving.
    这也许能解释为何我会对迷迭香情有独衷，这是因为我妈妈在每个感恩节都会做这道菜。
17. This anomaly can be solved only by reforming the Chinese banking system's consumption-depressing predilection for lending to build export capacity.
    要解决这种不正常局面，只有改革中国银行体系为出口产能的建设放贷、抑制消费的习惯。
18. She also instilled in him her predilection for new and rarely performed works.
    她还把自己对新作品和很少被表演的作品的偏好慢慢灌输给他。
19. The theory of human nature supposition is an analysis and classification of human predilection of psychological behavior.
    人性假设理论是对人的心理行为偏好的分析和归类。
20. Way to Compute Weight of Road Attribute in development of Intelligent Navigation Device Based on the Predilection of the Drivers
    基于驾驶员偏好的智能导航终端开发中的路网权值标定方法研究
21. FOR a country with no particular predilection for fish, sushi is slowly but surely conquering Syria's capital, Damascus.
    虽然叙利亚人对鱼没有特殊的偏爱，寿司这种食物却正在逐渐入侵叙利亚的首都大马士革。
22. Is it reasonable, for example, to put a serious addiction like alcoholism in the same category as a predilection for cupcakes?
    比如，将严重的上瘾（如酗酒）与喜欢吃纸杯蛋糕划归到同一类中是否合理？
23. Eccrine poroma is a benign adnexal skin tumor seen in middle aged individuals with no sex predilection.
    汗孔瘤是发生于皮肤的良性附属器肿瘤，中年人多见，无性别倾向。
24. China legal sense has a predilection for public power and the relationship between public power and private power has the phenomenon of inversion, unreality, behaving at will.
    中国的法治意识土壤中存在公权力偏好，在公权力和私权利关系上存在倒置、虚化和随意化现象。
25. The predilection to blame business was manifest in one of President Barack Obama's recent speeches.
    在巴拉克奥巴马（BarackObama）总统最近的一次演讲中，人们可以清楚地看出这种指责商界的倾向。
26. An approach of diabetic foot ulcers nature and its predilection site
    糖尿病足溃疡的性质及好发部位分析
27. He trundles through a variety of issues on which, thanks to his congressional testimony and other musings, his thoughts are both already generally available and infrequently startling to anyone familiar with his predilection for free markets.
    他详细叙述了一系列问题。由于他的国会证词和其它一些言论，他的思想不仅已经广为传播，而且对于任何熟知他的自由市场立场的人而言，并不令人惊讶。
28. Moreover, the Chinese predilection for investment-led remedies for deficient demand means that most of the external benefit will accrue to energy and commodity producers.
    另外，中国倾向于用投资拉动来弥补需求不足的问题，这意味着，能源和大宗商品制造国将收获绝大部分的外部收益。
29. Objective: Enunciating the characteristics of concrete blood flowing state and parameter in the predilection site of arteriosclerosis obliterans, and providing theoretical basis for deep study.
    目的：阐明动脉粥样硬化好发部位血液的具体流态和参数特点，为深入研究提供理论依据。
30. Analysis of Blood Flowing State and Parameter in the Predilection Site of Arteriosclerosis Obliterans
    动脉粥样硬化好发部位血液流态和参数分析

noun

1. a predisposition in favor of something
   1. a predilection for expensive cars
   2. his sexual preferences
   3. showed a Marxist orientation

   Synonym:    preferenceorientation

2. a strong liking
   1. my own preference is for good literature
   2. the Irish have a penchant for blarney

   Synonym:    preferencepenchanttaste