predispose

verb

1. 使倾向于；使受…的影响
   to influence sb so that they are likely to think or behave in a particular way
   1. He believes that some people are predisposed to criminal behaviour.
      他认为有些人容易犯罪。
   2. Her good mood predisposed her to enjoy the play.
      她当时兴致高，所以一定喜欢那出戏。
2. 使易于患（某种病） ；容易诱发
   to make it likely that you will suffer from a particular illness
   1. Stress can predispose people to heart attacks.
      紧张容易使人心脏病发作。

1. VERB 使倾向于；使有意向
   If something predisposes you to think or behave in a particular way, it makes it likely that you will think or behave in that way.
   1. They take pains to hire people whose personalities predispose them to serve customers well...
      他们千方百计雇用那些性格上天生适合服务顾客的人。
   2. There is evidence to suggest that certain factors predispose some individuals to criminal behaviour.
      有证据表明，特定的因素会使某些人产生犯罪倾向。
2. VERB 使易感染，使易患（某种疾病）
   If something predisposes you to a disease or illness, it makes it likely that you will suffer from that disease or illness.
   1. ...a gene that predisposes people to alcoholism.
      使人容易嗜酒的基因

1. They take pains to hire people whose personalities predispose them to serve customers well
   他们千方百计雇用那些性格上天生适合服务顾客的人。
2. There is evidence to suggest that certain factors predispose some individuals to criminal behaviour.
   有证据表明，特定的因素会使某些人产生犯罪倾向。
3. Why does AIDS predispose infected persons to certain types of cancer and infections?
   为什么艾滋病使患者容易感染某些癌症和传染病？
4. Cats could cause our immune system to react in a way that predispose eyes to the development of glaucoma.
   而宠物猫却会诱发我们的免疫系统做出不同的反应，导致青光眼的出现。
5. I believe the evidence is compelling: love and intimacy lead to greater health and healing, while loneliness and isolation predispose one to suffering, disease and premature death.
   我认为我们有足够证据相信：爱的亲密关系能使人更健康，康复得更迅速，而孤独而离群独居则使人更易遭受痛苦、疾病和过早死亡的不幸。
6. Fatigue predispose to colds.
   疲劳易使人患感冒。
7. Using the latest technology, scientists will screen tissue samples from the study looking for genetic variants that may predispose individuals to develop early atherosclerosis.
   利用最新的技术，科学家们将对该研究中的组织标本进行筛查以寻找早期动脉粥样硬化的易患变异基因。
8. It is possible that genes predispose some people to optimism, and that the same genes affect health and longevity.
   可能基因会让一些人天生乐观，同时这些基因又会影响健康和寿命。
9. Lupus, diabetes, kidney failure, and rheumatoid arthritis can predispose a woman to the destruction of her ovarian follicles and affect her ability to produce estrogen.
   狼疮，糖尿病，肾衰和类风湿性关节炎的患者易于破坏她们的卵泡并影响卵巢产生雌激素。
10. Stepwise multiple logistic regression analysis used to determine the independent factors that may predispose an infant to HIE.
    使用多元逐步Logistic回归分析来确定可能会诱发新生儿罹患HIE的独立因素。
11. Medical conditions associated with onychocryptosis include diabetes, obesity, as well as thyroid, cardiac, and kidney diseases that may predispose to lower extremity edema.
    医疗条件相关性引的嵌甲包括糖尿病，肥胖症，以及甲状腺，心脏和可能会引起下肢水肿的肾脏疾病。
12. As Alan Leo pointed out almost a century ago, if you scare someone about a future cycle, you may actually cause them harm ( even predispose them to have problems).
    像ALANLEO指出的那样，如果你因为害怕某人对未来的恐惧，你可能实际上会导致他们伤害（甚至事先让他们倾向出问题）。
13. We don't know exactly what the factors are that predispose people.
    我们不知道具体什么因素给这些人造成了先天的不利。
14. In recent years, research effort has also focused on the genetic abnormalities that may predispose to CP.
    最近一些年来，研究成就也集中在遗传异常方面，其可能是造成慢性胰腺炎的因素。
15. No conditions exist that predispose the product to external contamination.
    不存在预处理的产品受外部污染的情况。
16. His good manners predispose people in his favor.
    他的文雅举止使人们未经接触就对他产生了好感。
17. It has been theorized that a prenatal hormonal imbalance may predispose individuals to the disorder.
    从理论上讲，父母亲性激素不平衡可能为孩子的病症留下根源。
18. As noted above, obesity can predispose the cat to this type of injury, also.
    如上所述，可以更容易导致肥胖猫这种损伤类型，也。
19. Although proximal stress shielding does not adversely affect early clinical results, the combination of bone remodeling and subsequent osteolysis can predispose to trochanteric fracture.
    虽然近端应力遮挡对早期临床结果并不产生负面影响，但骨重建及随后的骨溶解可使粗隆易发生骨折。
20. But above all, effective prevention addresses the structural faults that predispose a society to conflict.
    最重要的是，有效预防的方法是解决导致社会发生冲突的结构性问题。
21. Patients who take ICS may have other corticosteroid exposures, or have other conditions that predispose them to side effects, making the analysis of the ICS risk challenging.
    吸入皮质激素的患者患者可能也暴露于其他的皮质类固醇类，或者其他条件使他们易罹患副反应，使吸入皮质激素危险的分析的结果受到影响。
22. CONCLUSIONS: Bladder dysfunction did not predispose patients to recurrent urinary tract infections.
    结论：膀胱功能障碍并非造成反复泌尿系感染的因素。
23. Background& In the vascular system, elevated levels of reactive oxygen species ( ROS) produce oxidative stress and predispose to the development of atherosclerosis.
    背景资料&在血管系统中，活性氧（ROS）水平升高可导致氧化应激并使动脉粥样硬化易于发展。
24. Casanova believes there are likely other genes that predispose people to infectious diseases, and that some of them may be inherited in a dominant fashion.
    Casanova相信可能存在着其它感染性疾病易感性基因，而且有部分可能以显性方式遗传。
25. Factors that predispose dogs to this condition are intestinal foreign bodies, intestinal cancer, intussusception, and other intestinal diseases.
    肠道异物、肠肿瘤、肠套叠和其他肠道疾病都是该疾病的易感因素。
26. Genetic traits may predispose some smokers to stronger addiction.
    基因特质使某些吸烟者更易成瘾。
27. Exposure to too much noise may predispose you to headache.
    接触太多的噪音会让你头疼。
28. Does being ethnically Chinese predispose you to commercial success?
    作为华人是否让你更容易取得商业成功？
29. Theoretically, hypoxemic episodes during sleep apnea may predispose patients to oxidative stress.
    理论上讲，睡眠呼吸暂停时血氧不足的发作可能导致患者出现氧化应激。
30. Simple renal cysts, as seen here, can also be multiple, but they are never as numerous as with polycystic change, and they do not predispose to chronic renal failure.
    单纯性肾囊肿，可以是多发的，但它们从来没有多囊变化，它不会发展成慢性肾衰。

verb

1. make susceptible
   1. This illness predisposes you to gain weight