predispose

predispose[,pri:dis'pəuz]

• vt.
  • 预先处理；使倾向于；使易接受：

    fatique predisposes one to illness

    疲劳使人容易生病

  • 使预先有倾向；使预先有意向：

    His good manners predispose people to like him.

    他彬彬有礼的举止使人们尚未接触就喜欢他。

• vi.
  • 引起易感性 (to):

    The end of the hot season in the tropics predisposes to malaria.

    热带的暑末易流行疟疾。

• 短语:
  • predispose someone to (或 toward) 使某人日后倾向于(或易于接受)…
• 变形:

  vt.predisposed.predisposing

• lanolin
• lande
• genialises
• pocket boroughs
• Doc-in-the-Box
• sparger
• funny houses
• bunyip
• duobinary
• raise one's consciousness
• touch-up time
• reformative
• pare sth ↔ down
• have sb's guts for garters
• design safety factor
• Terpsichore
• Tineoidea
• revolutionise
• reawaken
• Hoover,John Edgar
• house magazine
• masterships
• self-actualise
• unwish
• callejon
• sermonising
• Dutching
• Big Bang
• morticed
• interplanetary medium
• white wood aster
• amphisarca
• mugsful
• finagled
• dauphinesses
• total history
• hemihydrates
• trade unionists
• in the name of God/Heaven
• paymaster general
• washwoman
• deanol
• trigae
• Flanders storm
• nil desperandum
• baleen whales
• Bartholomew
• meteorological check point
• howbeit
• exonumists
• inspiratory reserve volume
• micropayment
• penetrates
• line conversion
• let it rip
• drop a pinch of salt on the tail of
• wirebird
• be up to someone's larks
• Afrasian
• stypsis
• Melchior
• hospital
• leg before wickets
• magnetization intensity
• action level
• forward bias
• salad green
• keyed adapter
• good-sized
• leg-pull
• never more
• hemiopic
• knocking-shop
• skaldic
• syconium
• Groundhog Days
• Western Sahara
• shantylike
• seen one … seen them all
• motor generator
• hukama
• Asteidae
• scratches
• torte
• praxiologies
• reflex index
• biocoen
• walk-along
• stirred
• caravan parks
• blood-CSF barrier
• evanescence
• Windsor rocker
• despinning
• metric miles
• with the colours
• committed
• television set
• British warm
• Buganda