incline
英 [?n'kla?n]
美 [?n'kla?n]
- vi. 傾斜；傾向；易于
- vt. 使傾斜；使傾向于
- n. 傾斜；斜面；斜坡
助記提示
1. in- "into, in, on, upon" + clin- + -e.
2. 傾斜 => 引申義：傾向。
中文詞源
incline 傾向，傾斜in-,進入，使，-cline,傾向，傾斜，詞源同acclivity,decline.
英文詞源
- incline
- incline: [13] Latin -clīnāre (a relative of English lean, but itself only ever recorded in compounds) meant ‘bend, lean’. Add to this the prefix in- and you had inclīnāre ‘lean towards’. This was originally borrowed into English via Old French encliner as encline – a form which survived until the 17th century, when the latinized incline began to take over. The metaphorical use of the word to indicate a person’s disposition or preference dates back to Roman times.
=> lean - incline (v.)
- c. 1300, "to bend or bow toward," from Old French encliner, from Latin inclinare "to cause to lean; bend, incline, turn, divert," from in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + clinare "to bend," from PIE *klei-n-, suffixed form of *klei- "to lean" (see lean (v.)). Metaphoric sense of "have a mental disposition toward" is early 15c. in English (but existed in classical Latin). Related: Inclined; inclining.
- incline (n.)
- c. 1600, "mental tendency," from incline (v.). The literal meaning "slant, slope" is attested from 1846.
雙語例句
- 1. Those who fail incline to blame the world for their failure.
- 那些失敗者往往將他們的失敗歸咎于社會。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The men had to slog up a steep muddy incline.
- 人們只得在陡峭而泥濘的斜坡上艱難地行進。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. I incline to the view that we should take no action at this stage.
- 我傾向于認為我們在這個階段不應采取行動。
來自《權威詞典》
- 4. I incline to ( take ) the opposite point of view.
- 我傾向于持反對觀點.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 5. I incline to his opinion on this matter.
- 對這件事我傾向于他的觀點.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》