leanings

英 [ˈliːnɪŋz]

美 [ˈlinɪŋz]

n.  倾向; 偏向; 爱好
leaning的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 倾向；偏向；爱好
  Your particularleaningsare the beliefs, ideas, or aims you hold or a tendency you have towards them.
  1. During the war his pacifist leanings were not helpful.
     战时他的和平主义思想派不上用场。
  2. I always had a leaning towards sport.
     我一向喜欢运动。

双语例句

• Indeed there is almost a danger that Mr Sarkozy's Atlanticist leanings have raised expectations unrealistically high in Washington and London.
  萨尔科齐先生的大西洋主义倾向名不副实地抬高了华盛顿和伦敦的期望，这确实差不多是个危险。
• He has been unhappy with his son's political leanings
  他一向不满意儿子的政治倾向。
• Fath's parents tried to curb his artistic leanings and sent him to business school, where he studied bookkeeping.
  法特赫的父母试图阻止他朝艺术发展，并把他送到商学院去念书，在那里他研究账本。
• Hugo's father was a general in the Napoleonic army with republican sympathies while his middle-class mother had royalist leanings.
  雨果的爸爸曾是拿破仑军队的一名将军，是共和制的支持者，而他中产阶级的妈妈则有保皇主义的倾向。
• The response of many, notably environmentalists and people with socialist leanings, is to welcome such conflicts.
  许多人（特别是环保主义者和有社会主义倾向的人）的反应，是欢迎这种冲突。
• Those who had been prompted to think about choices, regardless of their own political leanings, expressed less support for the equalizing policies.
  那些一开始就要求关注“做选择”的参与者，不管各自的政治立场是什么，都表示不怎么赞同这项旨在促进的公平的政策。
• If you have any artistic leanings, this aspect helps your expression become more salable.
  如果你有任何的艺术倾向，这相位让你的表现变得更有出路。
• Is it safe to say her maternal leanings are still to be dealt with?
  问：我们可以说她的母性仍然是一个需要解决的问题吗？
• Because of these assertive leanings, you can make an excellent salesperson, but you may have some problems with human relations.
  就是因为这些强势的倾向，让你可以是个出色的销售人士，但是你却在人际关系方面有问题。
• Betraying his academic leanings, Mr Stevens argues that the nature of security in the information age is evolving into something more personal, not just the domain of government.
  史蒂文斯指出，信息时代的安全，其特征是日益进入更为个人化的领域，而不仅限于政府范筹。这一点，暴露了他的学术化倾向。