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

• Her Western background and academic training combined with her spiritual leanings give Wreford an insight into both the physical and psychological impacts of HIV/ AIDS.
  她的西方背景和学术训练与她在精神上的倾向结合起来，这让她可以一窥艾滋病在生理和心理两方面的影响。
• If I eat the same food, have same musical, literary and dramatic basis and the same etiquette as my Catholic friend, me and him are of the same culture, regardless of my religious leanings.
  如果我跟我的天主教朋友吃同样的食物，音乐、文学和戏剧基础和礼仪规范也完全相同，那么即使我们有着不同的宗教倾向，我们的文化也是相同的。
• 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。
• But for all of his billions of dollars, technological genius and philanthropic leanings, the co-founder of Facebook remains a very, very bad dresser.
  坐拥数十亿身家，拥有非凡的技术天赋，还热衷慈善，但这位脸谱网站创始人的着装品味实在不敢让人恭维。
• 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。
• If others don't display their political leanings, it may be unofficially frowned upon.
  如果别人都没有公布自己的政治倾向，那就可能政治话题在公司是不被接受的。
• The testimony of his contemporaries attests to this, and certainly the known facts of his life confirm his leanings toward the metaphysical and the mystical.
  和他同时代的人公认他对玄学和神秘主义的偏爱，他的一生也充分证实了这一点。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。