The personality of the individual adopter plays an important role in the propensity to trust the unfamiliar.
个人采纳者的性格在对信任不熟悉事物的习性上扮演了重要角色。
The propensity for tuxedoed birds to enact something like a gay marriage has since provided a memorable skirmish in the culture wars.
此后的文化战斗中,用穿礼服的鸟儿来扮演同性婚姻之类的事儿,这种倾向导致了值得纪念的冲突。
While the study found the most deceitful age was 12, the propensity to fib dropped to about 70 per cent once the children had turned 16.
同时研究表明最不诚实的年纪是12岁,一旦孩子到了16岁,说谎的可能性就会降到70%。
"We discovered 150 or so genetic markers that can highly predict whether or not a person has the genetic propensity to live to extreme old age."
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And what Darwin is claiming here, and it's a controversial and interesting claim, is that language is special in that there's some sort of propensity or capacity or instinct for language unlike the other examples he gives.
达尔文在此所表达的观点,极具争议而又非常有趣,这个观点认为,语言之所以特殊,是因为总有某些倾向,能力或本能,使得语言与他所举的其他例子有所不同
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