Some people are genetically predisposed to diabetes.
有些人因遗传因素而易患糖尿病。
He believes that some people are predisposed to criminal behaviour.
他认为有些人容易犯罪。
As always, there are the power worshippers, especially among historians, who are predisposed to admire whatever is strong, who feel more attracted to the might of Rome than to the subtlety of Greece.
与以往一样,有些权力崇拜者,尤其是历史学家,他们倾向于赞美任何强大的东西,他们对罗马权力的的欣赏远胜于对希腊人敏锐的欣赏。
Some constitutions are predisposed to consumption.
有些体质容易生肺病。
As human beings, we are predisposed to be selfish in nature.
作为人类,我们本质上是利己的。
Most men are genetically predisposed to male pattern baldness.
很多男人是遗传性的易患男性模式脱发。
Are ewes naturally cheery and bees predisposed to gloominess?
母羊天生乐观而蜜蜂天生忧郁?
The inhabitants are predisposed to rheumatism by the damp climate.
因气候潮湿,居民易患风湿症。
The inhabitants are predisposed to rheumatism by the damp climate.
由于气候潮湿当地居民易患风湿症。
It travelled on into areas less predisposed to the formation of stars.
它进入一些事先较少预料到会产生明星的领域。
People were predisposed to believe Hillary Clinton could not win except by cheating.
人们便自然认为希拉里·克林顿如果不作弊就赢不了。
The researchers suggest that she could have been genetically predisposed to heart problems.
研究生认为有可能她天生由于遗传因素就易患心脏病。
That means, in theory, 15 percent of the American population is predisposed to live to be 100.
这在理论上意味着15%的美国人有活到100岁的倾向。
That is because some patients may be terrified to learn they are predisposed to develop cancer.
这是因为一些患者可能在获悉易患癌症后手足无措。
An inability to do that is the price paid for protection from famine by those predisposed to marasmus.
由那些预先安排给消瘦症患者免于饥馑措施付出的代价就是,要做到这些相当无能为力。
"If we are predisposed to have a talent, we may actively seek out an environment to suit it," says Thompson.
汤普森说,“如果我们预先决定要创造出一个天才,那我们可能就要积极地去寻找一个环境来配合他的成长”。
Similarly, people who visit public libraries may be more predisposed to reading mystery novels than literary classics.
同样地,光顾公共图书馆的人可能更喜爱阅读志怪小说而不爱读文学名著。
But there may be subset of patients who are genetically predisposed to this effect by mechanisms we don't yet understand yet.
但部分人可能先天有这种倾向,具体的机制我们仍不清楚。
For example, richer people would tend not to visit public libraries but they are possibly more predisposed to reading literary classics.
例如,较富有的人往往不太会光顾公共图书馆,但他们可能更喜爱阅读文学名著。
Full disclosure, my grandfather was a Norwegian and I was fairly predisposed to overlook some of Egil's more pathological mental states.
在此透露一下,我的祖父是一名挪威人,我比较倾向于忽视埃吉尔的一些病态心理。
In fact, the reverse is more logical: people predisposed to addiction are more likely to participate in potentially addictive activities.
实际上,从反面来讲,这一点更具逻辑性:打游戏易成瘾的人更喜欢打游戏。
The intuitive answer - that you are born predisposed to certain talents and lacking in others - is really just one small piece of the puzzle.
直觉的回答认为,这是由于人们天生往往只拥有某些天赋而缺少另一些造成的,但这种认识仅仅是此难题的一个小小的方面。
A 2011 study, for example, had shown that aspirin reduced the risk of colorectal cancers for those who were genetically predisposed to get it.
例如,一项2011年的研究显示,阿司匹林能降低那些先天易患上结肠癌的病人的患病几率。
"If you have a species that is psychologically predisposed to work with others, and get them involved, that opens up possibilities," Watts said.
瓦茨说:“如果你有一个物种,它们心理上倾向于和他人共事,让他人参与,开辟各种可能性,那么它们能完成更多的目标。”
Likewise, the assumption that parents are predisposed to love their children unconditionally and protect them from harm is not universally true.
同样地,父母被先入为主地认为无条件地爱他们的子女,保护他们不受伤害,这个假设并非放诸四海而皆准。
We also hope to study if their reduced fertility passes on to subsequent generations, and if the granddaughters are predisposed to similar problems.
我们还想研究她们受损的生育能力会不会传递给后代,还有她们的孙女会不会出现相似的问题”。
Scientists at the University of South Florida studied mice that are genetically predisposed to develop Alzheimer's and its accompanying memory problems.
南佛罗里达大学的科学家研究了受基因感染诱发阿尔茨海默病并伴有记忆问题的实验鼠。
Scientists at the University of South Florida studied mice that are genetically predisposed to develop Alzheimer's and its accompanying memory problems.
南佛罗里达大学的科学家研究了受基因感染诱发阿尔茨海默病并伴有记忆问题的实验鼠。
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