| 单词 | tendency |
| 释义 | tend·en·cy 1. a. < regarded political economy as a science of tendencies only — R.H.Hutton > < that tendency in art which has been called abstract — Herbert Read > b. < disliked the tendency of amateur diplomats to burst into print — H.G.Dwight > < my instinctive tendency has always been to temperance — Havelock Ellis > c. 2. a. < an evident tendency on the part of the writers to enlarge on the blessings of nature — R.H.Brown > b. < a policy at once plausible and insidious, temporizing and yet thick with tendency — Francis Hackett > Synonyms: < the whole tendency of evolution is towards a diminishing birthrate — Havelock Ellis > < a tendency toward lower prices for some equipment — Nation's Business > < the revolutionary oil is designed to decrease the tendency of engines to knock — Report: Union Oil Co. of California > < has not escaped that tendency to violence — G.B.Shaw > < the tendency to moralize — Bliss Perry > trend is a general direction maintained despite minor deviations, differing from tendency in usually implying a direction more subject to change < by trend is meant a persistent general movement in the direction of some distant goal as yet underfined or only vaguely held — C.A.Dawson & W.E.Gettys > < the national trend toward corporate control and mass production — American Guide Series: Ind. > < a trend toward a favorable balance of trade — R.E.Scott > < the trend of his mind was historical — H.N.Fowler > drift adds to trend the idea of a slowness and seeming indirection, often a meandering or uncertain quality, often a direction the objective of which is not overt or obvious to a quick view < a more general process of internal migration that involved both regional shifts and a drift to the cities — Oscar Handlin > < vigorous protest against the drift toward revolution — H.J.Thornton > < saw the drift of the fellow's intentions — Rafael Sabatini > < the drift and meaning of the story — Gilbert Parker > tenor is very close to drift but applies more commonly and specifically to the import of statements or documents and suggests more certainty and clearness < the whole tenor of the teaching of Jesus — W.F.Hambly > < the general tenor or direction of the talks — Bernard Smith > < one frightening aspect of the tenor of the times — V.M.Rogers > current implies a movement of course more clearly defined and of more distinct identity and some substance < the current of opinion and the whole drift of feeling — W.C.Brownell > < the very central current of the evolution of medieval Latin poetry — H.O.Taylor > < he has not … changed the current of our constitutional law — M.R.Cohen > |
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