Propensity

(n.) The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency.

奥罗拉编辑

• Thirdly, Account for that propensity, which this illusion gives, to unite these broken appearances by a continued existence. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Love had come, as the rod of the master-prophet, to swallow up every minor propensity. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• But man's propensity for wearing clothes has led to the invention of every variety of tools for making them faster, cheaper, and better. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• A strong propensity or inclination alone, without any present impression, will sometimes cause a belief or opinion. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• She had a curious propensity to call Mrs. Bounderby 'Miss Gradgrind,' and yielded to it some three or four score times in the course of the evening. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Fourthly and lastly, Explain that force and vivacity of conception, which arises from the propensity. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The great propensity men have to pride may be considered as another similar phaenomenon. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The relation causes a smooth passage from the impression to the idea, and even gives a propensity to that passage. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Each faulty propensity in leading him to evil, had led him likewise to punishment. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Amelia seeing this propensity, laughingly encouraged it and looked exceedingly roguish as she administered to him cup after cup. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• A spare and rare shaft she still reserved for his unfortunate poetic propensity; but even here she would tolerate no irony save her own. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Where reason is lively, and mixes itself with some propensity, it ought to be assented to. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• This propensity gave Mrs. Rouncewell great uneasiness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• But the figures had the old obstinate propensity--they WOULD NOT add up. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He was a clever man; a pleasant companion; a careless student; with a great propensity for running into debt, and a partiality for the tavern. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Hortense and she possessed an exhaustless mutual theme of conversation in the corrupt propensities of servants. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• They are natives of the southeast of Asia and are remarkable for their pugnacious propensities. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He can influence the blood-thirsty war-dogs, while I resist their propensities vainly. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• What a pigmy intellect she had, and what giant propensities! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But of his minuter propensities, as you call them you have from peculiar circumstances been kept more ignorant than myself. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• And Herbert had seen him as a predatory Tartar of comic propensities, with a face like a red brick, and an outrageous hat all over bells. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• How fearful were the curses those propensities entailed on me! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The merit and demerit of actions frequently contradict, and sometimes controul our natural propensities. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Here then the contradiction betwixt the propensities of the imagination and passion displays itself. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• We build now on his intellectual faculties, we establish our hopes on his moral propensities. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Well, propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Science represents the safeguard of the race against these natural propensities and the evils which flow from them. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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