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单词 inclination
释义
inclination
noun
uk
/ˌɪn.klɪˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌɪn.kləˈneɪ.ʃən/

inclinationnoun(FEELING)

C2[CorU]
afeelingthat youwantto do aparticularthing, or thefactthat youpreferor are morelikelyto do aparticularthing:
倾向；爱好；意向
[+ to infinitive]My own inclination would betolookfor anotherjob.我个人的意向是另找一份工作。
We should bebasingourdecisionsonsolidfacts, not inclinations andhunches.我们应将我们的决定基于可靠的事实而不是个人爱好和直觉。
Synonyms
desire(WANT)
persuasion(BELIEFS)
tendency
willingness
wish(WANT)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Feelings of desire
  • appetite
  • caprice
  • carnality
  • compulsion
  • covetousness
  • dream
  • drive
  • entitled
  • hankering
  • hunger
  • impulse buy
  • impulse buying
  • thirst
  • urge
  • vaulting
  • whim
  • whimsy
  • wish
  • yearning
  • yen
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Motives and reasons

inclinationnoun(MOVEMENT)

[C]formal
asmalldownwardmovement:
轻微的向下动作
asolemninclination of thehead郑重其事的点头
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Gestures & gesturing
  • air punch
  • air quotes
  • bat
  • beckon
  • bird
  • blow
  • blowsomeonea kissphrase
  • flipsomeoneoff
  • flourish
  • gesticulate
  • gesticulation
  • gesture
  • peace sign
  • pumpsomeone'shandidiom
  • shrug
  • signing
  • snapyourfingersidiom
  • stick/putyourtongue outidiom
  • tongue
  • wink
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inclinationnoun(ANGLE)

[Cusually singular,U]mathematics,engineeringspecialized
theangleat which somethingslopes
倾角，斜角
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Geometry: parts of geometrical shapes
  • -sided
  • angle
  • axes
  • axis
  • bulky
  • chord
  • conic
  • corresponding sides
  • frustum
  • hemisphere
  • hypotenuse
  • perimeter
  • plane
  • section
  • symmetrical
  • symmetrically
  • symmetry
  • tan
  • ultra-dense
  • vertex
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Slanting, sloping, leaning, tilting
(Definition ofinclinationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

inclination| American Dictionary

inclination
noun[C]
us
/ˌɪn·kləˈneɪ·ʃən/
apreferenceortendency, or afeelingthat makes apersonwantto do something:
Tonyhas astronginclination toward thearts.
If I were inyoursituation, my inclination would be tolookfor anotherjob.

inclined

adjectiveus
/ɪnˈklɑɪnd/
I’m inclined toagreewith you.
(Definition ofinclinationfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofinclination

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Several different local minima are found in parameter space, most of which have small relative inclinations of the planets.
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Depending upon time schedules and the kind of paper it was, and relative inclinations, one would write a draft.
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Nonetheless, he did not shed his modernist identity and inclinations.
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The political inclinations of retired people have little in common with their age.
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They differ in their architecture, social composition, life style, political inclinations and the economic activities that dominate them.
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On the first view, commitment epitomizes everything that transcends those egoistic preferences, inclinations, and desires on which homines oeconomici are usually taken to act.
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He points out that when someone approaches a hard decision they ask themselves what they should prefer, rather than what their inclinations or whims are.
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Similar inclinations maybe detected in the other pendants of the vault.
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In the absence of a strong associational life, citizens would lack the skills and inclinations necessary to work together on economic and political projects.
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Much like the film composer, his or her musical inclinations are mediated within an interactive grid.
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To motivate the concept of the will as instrument having two inclinations, he gives an analogy with sight.
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The latter holds that the good is to flourish as a human being through fulfilling one's natural inclinations in the proper way.
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The work's main difficulty is its rather rigid analysis and its polemical inclinations.
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Their assumptions are organicist and modernist; their policy inclinations are protectionist and nationalist.
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They simulated the case when breakup occurs using an approximate linear system, assuming the surface and the boundary deviate slightly from their inclinations.
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artistic inclination
He started to study law, but he soon followed his artistic inclination and became a sculptor in 1907.
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natural inclination
Where authority is legitimate, it is both a simple duty and anaturalinclinationto acquiesce in it.
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orbital inclination
All members have a relatively high orbital inclination.
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