tendencies

英 [ˈtɛndənsiz]

美 [ˈtɛndənsiz]

n.  倾向; 偏好; 性情; 趋势; 趋向; (政党内的)极端派别
tendency的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (令人焦虑或不快的)习惯，经常性行为，倾向
  Atendencyis a worrying or unpleasant habit or action that keeps occurring.
  1. The army has become increasingly restless over the mounting separatist tendencies of the northern republics.
     军方对于北方几个共和国不断加剧的分裂倾向感到越来越不安。
  2. ...the government's tendency towards secrecy in recent years.
     近年来政府的保密倾向
• N-COUNT (性格中不良的)倾向，偏好
  Atendencyis a part of your character that makes you behave in an unpleasant or worrying way.
  1. He is spoiled, arrogant and has a tendency towards snobbery...
     他被宠坏了，傲慢无礼，而且经常自命不凡。
  2. Helen had been struggling against suicidal tendencies.
     海伦一直在压制心里的自杀念头。

双语例句

• The chief engineer sounded a sharp warning against all these tendencies.
  总工程师对这些倾向发出了尖锐的警告。
• The essay bitterly satirized some unhealthy tendencies in society.
  这篇杂文辛辣地讽刺了社会上的一些不良现象。
• City's community construction is one of the development tendencies during Chinese social development.
  在中国社会发展中，城市社区建设是发展的主要趋势之一。
• Helen had been struggling against suicidal tendencies.
  海伦一直在压制心里的自杀念头。
• We should rectify the undesirable tendencies in time.
  我们应该及时纠正不良倾向。
• There are some tendencies in process of transformation, such as informatization, globalization, marketization and ecologicalization.
  在这一转变过程中，世界工业化发展出现了信息化、全球化、市场化、生态化的趋势。
• Measures China should take to keep up with the development tendencies are discussed.
  讨论了为赶上现代分析仪器的发展趋势，我国应采取的措施。
• Not all tendencies towards bourgeois liberalization were overcome, and some even grew worse.
  资产阶级自由化倾向有的有所克服，有的没有克服，有的发展得更严重了。
• Watch out for symptoms of unhealthy tendencies.
  要注意不良倾向的苗头。
• I was always regarded in the Army with a certain amount of suspicion because of my left-wing tendencies.
  由于我的左翼倾向，在军队中我总是受到一些猜疑。