A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
倾向
Inclination
I have no inclination to seek attention.
我不想引起别人的注意。
Often the best answer to the to the evil inclination is not “No!” but “Maybe.”
对于这种邪恶倾向，最好的回答往往不是“不!”但“也许”。
inclination, there is no such thing as losing a battle to win the war. The battle is the war.
倾向于，没有输掉一场战争就能赢得这场战争。战斗就是战争。
Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.
人的一生因一时倾听良心的呼唤，因心灵的一种平静的倾向而改变。
I adore clothes, I adore drinking. I just don't have the time or the inclination to totally indulge in it.
我喜欢衣服，我喜欢喝酒。我只是没有时间或意愿完全沉浸其中。
Just as the evil inclination causes evil to seem attractive to us, it causes good to seem repulsive to us.
正如恶的倾向使恶对我们有吸引力，它也使善对我们有排斥性。
Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.
有时我认为，如果上帝有时间和意愿的话，小说的存在是为了模仿上帝对我们的看法。
It is foolhardy to think of the evil inclination as something which occasionally assails us. We are its very habitation!
把这种邪恶的倾向看作是偶尔袭击我们的东西是愚蠢的。我们就是它的住所!
One has reached a high point in his moral development when he comes to regard it as “immature” to submit to the evil inclination.
当一个人认为屈服于邪恶的倾向是“不成熟的”时，他的道德发展达到了一个高峰。
One of the devices of the evil inclination is to turn our attention away from the present by heightening our anticipation of the future.
邪恶倾向的手段之一是通过提高我们对未来的预期来转移我们对现在的注意力。
At times, the evil inclination is so strong that it seems a sin not to satisfy it, and, of course, not wanting to sin, we give it satisfaction.
有时，邪恶的倾向是如此强烈，似乎是一种罪，不满足它，当然，不想犯罪，我们给它满足。
That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.
这一直是我的倾向，在另一个剧本完成之前就开始一个新的剧本，因为如果那个剧本被毁了，至少你还有东西可以回去看。
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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
实际上，是追随，而不是强迫公众的意愿;立法的真正目的是为社会的普遍意识指明方向、提供形式、提供技术服装和给予具体的制裁。
If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it.
如果你遭遇诉讼,这是无事实根据和理由你了你还不清楚,有一个非常大的倾向对人们的一部分要负责——这必须发生的,因为我是一个可怕的人,我做了一件,我得到偿还。
Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?
水银在容器中没有倾斜度，没有任何反感，甚至没有丝毫的反感，因此，当它进入容器时，它应该上升到足够高的水柱中，使之与迫使它上升的外部空气的重量达到平衡，这难道不奇怪吗?