propensity

noun

1. （行为方面的）倾向；习性
   a tendency to a particular kind of behaviour
   1. He showed a propensity for violence.
      他表现出暴力倾向。
   2. She has a propensity to exaggerate.
      她爱言过其实。

1. N-COUNT （性格上的）倾向；习性
   A propensity to do something or a propensity for something is a natural tendency that you have to behave in a particular way.
   1. Mr Bint has a propensity to put off decisions to the last minute...
      宾特先生习惯拖到最后时刻才作决定。
   2. She hasn't reckoned on his propensity for violence.
      她不曾料到他有暴力倾向。

1. Mr Bint has a propensity to put off decisions to the last minute
   宾特先生习惯拖到最后时刻才作决定。
2. She hasn't reckoned on his propensity for violence.
   她不曾料到他有暴力倾向。
3. And your defect is a propensity to hate every body.
   你有一种倾向，&对什么人都感到厌恶，这就是你的缺陷。
4. Another problem is that the Chinese public has an extraordinary propensity to save.
   另一个问题是，中国民众有着非比寻常的储蓄倾向。
5. Stress, fatigue, and multitasking can exacerbate our propensity to make such errors.
   压力、疲劳和多重任务处理可以增加我们健忘的可能。
6. But it may explain how people with apparently similar lifestyles differ in propensity to put on weight.
   但是它可能解释相同生活方式的人们却有不同的增加体重的倾向。
7. We do not find the implied theoretical assumptions underlying propensity scores to be attractive or robust.
   我们没发现处理倾向得分理论中具备稳健的假设。
8. They do know that the propensity for allergies can be genetic.
   但他们知道，过敏症的易感倾向可能与遗传有关。
9. There is a negative relationship between relationship commitment and propensity.
   关系承诺与默许之间有正向的关系。
10. Risk perception is influenced by cognitive bias and risk propensity, which have a direct impact on entrepreneurial decision.
    风险感知一方面容易受到个人认知偏差、风险倾向的影响，另一方面也直接作用于创业决策；
11. However, the quality of information has not always evolved nor has the propensity for humans to panic less.
    然而，信息的质量并非始终都在提高，人类的恐慌倾向也没有改善。
12. The problem is that Chinese citizens 'propensity to save is not matched by investment options.
    问题在于，中国居民的储蓄倾向与投资选项并不匹配。
13. A propensity to extravagance [ for gambling] to a wasteful manner or to a wasteful degree.
    奢华[赌博]的癖好以奢侈的方式或达到奢侈的程度。
14. She's inherited from her mother a propensity to talk too much.
    她从她母亲那里继承了说话太多的毛病。
15. Software is no different, except in its propensity to change.
    软件是不同的，除了它的变化的倾向。
16. He showed a propensity for violence.
    他表现出暴力倾向。
17. A Study of the Impact of Marginal Propensity to Consume on Optimizing China's Three Industries Structure
    边际消费倾向对我国三次产业结构优化作用研究
18. There are two reasons why education's spread reduces women's propensity to marry.
    有两个理由可以解释：为什么受教育减少女性结婚的需要。
19. Have the propensity to exchange genes with influenza viruses from other species.
    有与其他流感病毒交换基因的倾向。
20. During this period the propensity toward belligerence was put under leash by both humans and their institutions.
    在这段时间好战的倾向被人类和他们的习俗束缚起来。
21. Marginal propensity to consume is the effect on consumption of an additional dollar in disposable income.
    边际消费倾向是可支配收入增加一美元对消费的影响。
22. Moreover, this policy will violate the people's natural propensity.
    而且，如果采用这一政策，也会和人们的自然倾向相违背。
23. The personality of the individual adopter plays an important role in the propensity to trust the unfamiliar.
    个人采纳者的性格在对信任不熟悉事物的习性上扮演了重要角色。
24. He's well-known for his natural propensity for indiscretion.
    他是出了名的天生有不大谨慎的毛病。
25. In fact, we have already assumed capitalist's Marginal propensity to consume is zero early.
    事实上，我们先前已经假定资本家的边际消费倾向为零。
26. He has a propensity for or to antisocial behavior.
    他有反社会的倾向。
27. Cultural fatalism and superstition have long fed the propensity for gambling.
    文化宿命论和迷信思想一直为赌博倾向提供了滋生的土壤。
28. The frequency interpretation and the propensity interpretation belong to the objective interpretation of modern inductive logic.
    频率解释和性向解释都属于现代归纳逻辑理论中的客观解释。
29. As a kind of safety cigarette, low ignite propensity cigarette could reduce the risk of fires effectively.
    低引燃倾向卷烟作为一种安全型卷烟，能有效降低卷烟引起火灾的风险。
30. The marginal propensity to import, in other words, is a "leakage" from the expenditure stream.
    换言之，边际进口倾向是支出流量中的一个漏出量。

noun

1. a disposition to behave in a certain way
   1. the aptness of iron to rust
   2. the propensity of disease to spread

   Synonym:    aptness

2. a natural inclination
   1. he has a proclivity for exaggeration

   Synonym:    proclivityleaning

3. an inclination to do something
   1. he felt leanings toward frivolity

   Synonym:    leaningtendency