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单词 predisposition
释义
predisposition
noun[C]
formal
uk
/ˌpriː.dɪs.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/us
/ˌpriː.dɪs.pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
thestateof beinglikelytobehavein aparticularway or tosufferfrom aparticulardisease:
倾向；禀性；（易患某种疾病的）体质
She has anannoyingpredispositiontofindfault.她有爱挑毛病这一令人讨厌的禀性。
There isevidencethat a predispositionto(wards)asthmarunsinfamilies.有证据表明易患哮喘是家族遗传的。
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(Definition ofpredispositionfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpredisposition

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Acknowledging the prior operation of group selection provides an evolutionarily coherent explanation of the survival of human behavioral predispositions that enable social cooperation.
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To some extent, apparentpredispositionto reinfection could arise from imperfect efficacy of cure.
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In those cases where a more in-depth explanation is put forward, this typically refers to individual predispositions.
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The emphasis on constraints presupposes that the basic, universal, species typical behavioral predispositions of humans are foraging only.
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After having made such assumptions, researchers typically go on to investigate how predispositions affect opinion formation, information processing, voting behaviour, or some other important topic.
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On the one hand, they acknowledge that humans possess innate predispositions just like all other creatures.
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Collectively, these results reveal personality to be comparable to demographics and to fundamental political predispositions in two important manners.
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Studies of multiple infections are also important for furthering understanding of crossspecies immunity andpredispositionto infection within hosts.
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As expected, the links between religious behaviour and belief and non-moral policy predispositions and issue attitudes are weaker and less consistent across religious traditions.
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All behavior, normal and abnormal alike, is the product of congenital or acquired conditions affecting emotional or volitional predispositions.
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Because of their important political effects, there has been plenty of research on the antecedents of political predispositions.
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The strength ofpredispositionto heavy infections also increased across the study groups.
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The outcomes of public policies thus seem to provide feedback for a continuous and gradual revision of political predispositions.
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For example, we are well versed in the impact of demographics and attitudinal predispositions.
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Reduced cardiac conduction velocity andpredispositionto arrhythmias in connexin40-deficient mice.
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