记忆方法
1、pro- "forward" + cliv- + -ity.
2、取引申义。
2、取引申义。
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词族 · proclivity
词形变化
中文词源
proclivity 倾向，癖好
pro-,向前，-cliv,倾斜，词源同acclivity,lean.引申词义倾向，癖好。
英语词源
- proclivity (n.)
- 1590s, from Middle French proclivité or directly from Latin proclivitatem (nominative proclivitas) "a tendency, predisposition, propensity," from proclivis "prone to," literally "sloping, inclined," from pro- "forward" (see pro-) + clivus "a slope," from PIE *klei-wo-, suffixed form of *klei "to lean" (see lean (v.)).
权威例句
- 1. the government's proclivity for spending money
- 政府花钱的倾向
- 2. He has a proclivity toward violence.
- 他有暴力的倾向。
- 3. Now there was added a proclivity to emulate the scale of French colonial rule.
- 现在又增加了一种要同法国殖民统治规模媲美的倾向.
- 4. He has a proclivity for exaggeration.
- 他总爱夸夸其谈.
- 5. He has a proclivity to [ toward ] violence .
- 他有 暴力 的倾向.