Tendency

(noun.) a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect; 'the alkaline inclination of the local waters'; 'fabric with a tendency to shrink'.

(noun.) a general direction in which something tends to move; 'the shoreward tendency of the current'; 'the trend of the stock market'.

录入:威廉姆斯

• Darwin's father was remarkable for his powers of observation, while the grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, is well known for his tendency to speculation . 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• 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. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,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. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The principal reason why natural abilities are esteemed, is because of their tendency to be useful to the person, who is possessed of them. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The traces of consumption may become fainter, or be wholly effaced: the inherent tendency to vice or crime may be eradicated. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• As it has no tendency to diminish the quantity, it can have none to raise the price of that produce. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But there is a tendency to seek the cause of such aimless activities in the youth's own disposition, isolated from everything else. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Except where there is a disciplined disposition, the tendency is for the imagination to run loose. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Curiosity is but the tendency to make these conditions perceptible. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• If you have a tendency toward mouth breathing, let a physician examine your nose and throat. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• This changing focus in politics is a tendency at work all through our lives. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• We see this tendency to become striped most strongly displayed in hybrids from between several of the most distinct species. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• But it had a preponderating tendency, when considered, to become fainter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• 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. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The increasing facilities of communication enhanced this tendency and depleted Dublin. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• These were but the outward and visible symbols of his westering tendencies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• 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. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Modern psychology has substituted for the general, ready-made faculties of older theory a complex group of instinctive and impulsive tendencies. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• For they are the indispensable conditions of the realization of his tendencies. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• With cats, for instance, one naturally takes to catching rats, and another mice, and these tendencies are known to be inherited. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The same tendencies apply with some modifications to the clothing of mankind. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I saw some, with naturally elevated tendencies and good feelings, kept down amongst sordid privations and harassing griefs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It was difficult to believe that Thomasin would be cheered by a husband with such tendencies as these. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Similar tendencies had already appeared among the English Wycliffites. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• 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·萨克雷. 名利场.
• A multitude whose tendencies could be perceived, though not its essences. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Or contrary tendencies in the child are appealed to to divert him from his troublesome line of behavior. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• 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. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.

整理:谢尔登