prone是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 likely to suffer from an illness or show a particular negative characteristic -- 易於遭受（疾病）的；有（消極）傾向的

  • I've always been prone to headaches. 我總是容易頭痛。

  • He was prone to depression even as a teenager. 甚至在青少年時期他就容易情緒抑鬱。

  • She's prone to exaggerate, that's for sure. 她喜歡誇大其詞，這一點是肯定的。

• 1 lying face down -- 俯臥的，趴著的

  • The photograph showed a man lying prone on the pavement, a puddle of blood around his head. 這張照片上一名男子趴在人行道上，頭部周圍有一灘血。

• 2 likely to experience a particular problem more often than is usual -- 較常碰到…問題的

  • accident-prone 易出事故的

  • injury-prone 易受傷的