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趋势
Tendency
Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.
死亡倾向于助长人们对战争的悲观看法。
The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
文明的最终趋势是走向野蛮。
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
我爱睡觉。当我醒着的时候，我的生活有崩溃的倾向，你知道吗?
There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.
设计师们倾向于美化他们公司的规模。我从不说谎。
I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
我必须时刻警惕一种抑郁倾向，一种上瘾倾向。
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.
逻辑理论的知识没有使人成为好的推理者的倾向。
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
人类把小事看得很重要的倾向产生了很多伟大的事情。
Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.
假设我有一种倾向，如果我在一个情境中感到不舒服，我会说出我的想法。
I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.
我倾向于接受自己的挑战。事情越困难，我就越想去尝试。
I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
我认为这是人类的一种倾向，这种倾向已经存在了一段时间，那就是尽可能地证明自己的价值。
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
把一切事物和事物的原则都看成是不固定的模式或风尚，已越来越成为现代思想的倾向。
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
任何在使用电脑时忘记时间的人都知道梦想的倾向、实现梦想的冲动和错过午餐的倾向。
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The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.
税收的趋势是创造一个不劳动的阶级，从劳动的人那里拿走劳动的产品，并把它给那些不劳动的人。
I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.
我似乎有一种自然的倾向，想要与他人分享我自己的观察和感受，而写作似乎是我最适合的方式。
I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
我认为看看一个作者创造的世界是很有趣的，这个世界从某种程度上起源于现在的世界，通常反乌托邦的书会指出一些关于我们当前世界的东西，并夸大一种趋势或一种信仰。
Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.
因此，现代科学一方面认为，自然，无论是有机的还是无机的，都在朝着一种秩序的状态努力，而人类的行为也受同一趋势的支配。
Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.
人类不可能永远呆在那里。他注定要传播到新的地区，部分原因是他天生的迁徙倾向，部分原因是大自然的严峻紧迫性。