0 If someone has a tendency to do or like something, they will probably do it or like it:
[ + to infinitive ] His tendency to exaggerate is well known.
There is a tendency for unemployment to rise in the summer.
[ + to infinitive ] There is a growing tendency to regard money more highly than quality of life.
1 a likelihood to happen or to have a particular characteristic or effect:
He complained that there was a tendency to equate right-wing politics with self-interest.
There is a tendency in films to make the equation between violence and excitement.
Apparently some people have an inborn tendency to develop certain kinds of tumour.
Our best intentions are sometimes subverted by our natural tendency to selfishness.
What is required to know the present tendencies and future openings?
We have encountered it before in connection with geometry; here it appears in the sphere of the dialectical mode and its distinctive tendencies.
However, the localisation and decentralisation tendencies in social policy seem to be rather contradictory.
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(思想、行為等的)傾向, 趨勢, (某事發展的)傾向…
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