predispose to

基本解釋

Likewise, the assumption that parents are predisposed to love their children unconditionally and protect them from harm is not universally true.
同樣地，父母被先入為主地認為無條件地愛他們的子女，保護他們不受傷害，這個假設(shè)并非放諸四海而皆準。
Others are born predisposed to view themselves in a negative light because of their physical appearance, a disability, or for no reason anyone, including themselves, knows.
另一些人生來就對自己有一種消極的傾向，因為他們的外表、殘疾，或者沒有人知道的原因。
But even the cultural transmission of economic success is a provocative notion, and a painful one to most economists, who are predisposed to hope that good policies alone may promote economic growth.
但對大多數(shù)經(jīng)濟學(xué)家而言，即便是經(jīng)濟上的成功能通過文化傳遞這種觀點也會引起爭議和痛苦。這些經(jīng)濟學(xué)家本來希望單靠好的策略就能推動經(jīng)濟上的增長。

In other words, my experience I think predisposed me to being interested in the kind of phenomena that people in these extreme and unusual environments encounter. With Shackletons experience in mind, John Geiger started to investigate whether other people facing death or extreme fear had faced similar situations.
Some of them are predisposed to dislike Saussure and to hope that they can somehow discredit him by learning more about things that he thought that aren't actually in the text.
那些不喜歡他的人們,希望能找出更多書中沒有提到的,他的思想，以打擊此書的權(quán)威性。
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She says the pictures could play a role but one would have to be in a predisposed state then one may see the morbid murals with very different eyes, which could adversely affect someone.

Or does it show that Picower was predisposed to getting caught in such an investment scam?
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