predisposed

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 subjected the words to intense scrutiny and imagined an audience predisposed more toward contempt than admiration.
   他们反复斟酌用词，想象中的读者更多是吹毛求疵，而非心怀崇敬。
2. Happy individuals are predisposed to seek out new opportunities and set new goals.
   快乐的个人会倾向于寻找新的机会和新的目标。
3. They looked at identical twins, who would be genetically predisposed to age at a similar pace, to determine whether certain experiences affected ageing.
   为确定某些经历是否会影响衰老，研究人员对同卵双生的双胞胎进行了研究，这些双胞胎在基因的设定下衰老速度完全一样。
4. Pandora can lead a listener to music they might not know, but are predisposed to like.
   Pandora就好像私人DJ，为听众选择可能陌生但多半会喜欢的音乐。
5. It is becoming increasingly clear that as much as 80% of people who are obese are predisposed genetically.
   现在越来越明显，将近80%的肥胖病人是受基因的影响。
6. Gregory McQueen said: Women seem to be predisposed to be more inquisitive and to see more possible solutions.
   格雷戈里麦奎因说：女性似乎有更强的好奇心，能找出更多的可行的解决方案。
7. We are predisposed to find evidence that confirms our existing beliefs.
   我们都预设立场，找到的都是能证明我们所持理念的证据。
8. They also are predisposed toward kidney ailments and skin breakouts.
   另外，他们也易患肾病和皮肤病。
9. The ICU team typically includes a pharmacist who helps you review medication profiles and determine if your patient is predisposed to side effects or drug interactions.
   一个典型的ICU小组都有一个药剂师，他帮助护士评估药物性质，确定病人是否会诱发副作用或药物相互作用。
10. Women who are stressed about money, relationships and other problems during pregnancy may give birth to babies who are predisposed to allergies and asthma, US researchers said today.
    美国研究者指出：妊娠妇女由于经济、社会关系及其它一些问题导致的压力，有可能会生出易患上过敏症和哮喘病的婴儿。
11. His early training predisposed him to a life of adventure ( to travel widely).
    他的早年教育使他喜欢冒险生活（广泛旅行）。
12. Aerobic exercise ( nurture) seems to preserve telomere length with age, but we can't say whether exercising subjects are also genetically predisposed to have better telomere maintenance.
    有氧运动（后天的）似乎随着年龄增长可以保护端粒长度，但是我们不能说运动对象是否受基因影响具有更好的端粒修复能力。
13. Their survival ensured our existence but predisposed us to the same kind of short-term thinking.
    他们的存活确保了我们的存在但也留给了我们着眼于短期的相同倾向。
14. Multiple sclerosis ( MS) is triggered by unidentified antigens or other disease-causing agents in the environment and affects people who are genetically predisposed to the disease.
    多发性硬化（MS）由未知的环境过敏原或其它致病因子触发并影响遗传性易感人群的疾病。
15. He believes that some people are predisposed to criminal behaviour.
    他认为有些人容易犯罪。
16. The inhabitants are predisposed to rheumatism by the damp climate.
    因气候潮湿，居民易患风湿症。
17. The clusters may occur as a result of infections precipitating the condition in already predisposed individuals.
    聚类分析结果表明，在有患病倾向的个体中感染诱发了糖尿病。
18. It is of great importance to recognize patients who are predisposed to narrow-angle glaucoma.
    识别患者是否有窄角型青光眼发病倾向非常重要。
19. Researchers hope the information will send a more powerful message to people who may not focus on healthy eating and exercise, if they learn they are predisposed to heart disease or other ailments.
    一些人不太注重健康饮食和身体锻炼，假如他们得知自己易患心脏病或其它疾病，研究人员希望这些信息能够引起他们的关注。
20. Fish oil supplements can cause problems for diabetics predisposed to easy bleeding or haemorrhage.
    补充鱼油会引起糖尿病的一些问题，例如出血。
21. Even more intriguing, the study revealed that people who were genetically predisposed to diabetes benefited most.
    令人更加感兴趣的是，这项研究揭示出那些由于基因易患上糖尿病的人们是最大的获益者。
22. Perhaps it's genetically predisposed or a result of gender-biased education.
    也许这是遗传基因预先安排好的，或者是性别偏见的教育造成的。
23. International Diabetes: With current and available methods of screening and examinations can patients who may be predisposed to diabetes be selected out of the general populations?
    《国际糖尿病》：随着现在筛查和检查方法发展，能否在普通人群中筛查出糖尿病易患人群？
24. Sometimes common cold can trigger symptoms of asthma in people predisposed to the condition.
    有时伤风感冒可刺激有哮喘倾向者病发。
25. First, children who are underweight or overweight might have other underlying conditions or illnesses that make them more predisposed to dying of infection.
    第一，体重过轻或者体重超重的患儿本身就可能在一些特殊的状况下或者存在其他疾病，这些原因可能致使他们更容易诱发感染性致死。
26. Biological inheritance is the process by which an offspring cell or organism acquires or becomes predisposed to characteristics of its parent cell or organism.
    生物的继承是后代细胞或生命体取得或变成先天倾向它的父母细胞或生命体的特性的过程。
27. This new understanding goes hand-in-hand with discoveries in evolutionary biology, neuro-cognitive science and child development that reveal that human beings are biologically predisposed to be empathic.
    这种新的认识与人们在进化生物学、神经认知科学和儿童发育领域的发现吻合这些发现显示，从生物学角度讲，人类很容易产生共鸣。
28. Systemic use of the anti-muscarinic agents can also precipitate glaucoma in such predisposed patients. Specific binding is found in tissues where muscarinic receptors are demonstrable pharmacologically.
    对於有这种发病倾向的患者，全身性应用抗毒蕈碱类药物也能诱发青光眼。在药理学方法证明有毒蕈碱样受体的组织中发现了特异的结合作用。
29. But when the scientists compared mice that were genetically predisposed to developing cancer, they found that those without the RING lived twice as long as those with it.
    但是，当科学家将基因倾向于发展到癌症的小鼠相比，他们发现：那些没有RING的小鼠的寿命是有RING小鼠的两倍。
30. Another possibility is that people predisposed to migraines already have this thicker cortex, Hadjikhani said.
    另一种可能是易患偏头痛的人群可能已经存在较厚的皮层。

adj

1. made susceptible
   1. because of conditions in the mine, miners are predisposed to lung disease