"And what incentive programs do is make it more favorable for you to overcome that tendency to procrastinate doing something now."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

So this course is actually going to run counter to that historical tendency to make unity out of diversity.

所以这一课程,是与历史趋同的趋势相悖的。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

I feel like people, I think I definitely have the tendency to do that.

我觉得人们，我想我当然也有那样做的倾向。

主修古典文学 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Analysts say it was an example of Mr.Saakashvili's erratic tendency to act quickly, without considering the consequences.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Maintain friendships. In this world right now, there is a great tendency to move you to one side or the other, and be in conflict.

保持友谊在这个世界,有把你从一面推向另一面的趋势，并且两面相互对立。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But Fraser says information technology specialists may have a tendency to focus on the technology and not see things from the user's point of view.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

Relative to the whole market, It's well known that over periods of multiple decades the market has a tendency to go up.

是和整个市场相关的对吗，我们都知道经过几十年的时间周期,市场会有上涨的倾向。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Cargill says the British media has a tendency to focus on personal matters.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

Geoffrey Hartman's theory had a similar tendency to align the poem with a kind of a religious orthodoxy.

哈特曼的理论有着相似的趋势,给这首诗附加上一种宗教上的正统思想。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He says many don't even have the active ingredients in them. There is a tendency to treat all fevers as malaria in West Africa,and resistance to otherwise effective treatments, like cloroquine, has become a problem.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

So the total number of shares is almost-- the tendency to do splits is a cultural thing; it's of no real significance.

所以股票总数几乎是个,这种分割的趋势是文化使然,没有实际的意义

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"There is a tendency - when it comes to changing behavior in realms where behavior change is difficult - to always favor putting it off until the future."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

I have a tendency to put upon texts an inherent authority which is stronger, I think, than Derrida is willing to put on them.

我倾向于把一个固有的权威,放在文本之上，这个权威，我想，比德里达愿意放置的更强大。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

"It's physiological and it's emotional." "Physiologically,we have a tendency when we come into a situation that seems dangerous we get a lot of chemicals flowing through our bodies to help us stay alert, to be able to act if we need to act.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

And what this is is technically described as a decline in the tendency to respond to stimuli that are familiar due to repeated exposure.

它在学术上被描述为,由于重复暴露在刺激环境中,而造成对该刺激反应倾向的降低。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

What bothers Socrates most about our democracy is a certain kind of instability, its tendency to be pulled between extremes of anarchy, between lawlessness and tyranny.

苏格拉底对我们民主最感困扰的是,不稳定性，倾向于失序两端,拉扯的特性，即介于目无法纪与专制之间。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But sometimes he had a tendency to pick people whom he liked a lot but were totally unqualified, military commanders who weren't very good.

但有时他倾向于选择,他很喜欢但完全不合格的人,例如不很得力的军事指挥者

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

There is a striking parallel here in that the group one elements have a tendency to want to give up electrons, F Cl Br whereas the fluorine, chlorine, bromine, have a tendency to attract electrons.

这儿有高度的相似性,每个组都有,失去电子的趋势的，相反的，则是有得电子的趋势。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

For example, as in the rest of the ancient world, slavery existed in Israel. It did. Even so, and this is not to apologize for it, there is a tendency toward humanitarianism in the laws concerning slavery.

例如，就像远古世界的其它地方一样，奴隶制也存在于,以色列，即使这样，也不必为此感到抱歉，在有关,奴隶制的法律里都有一种人道主义倾向。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

We got used to hearing it that way, so it's kind of-- every time, you know, Schumann wants to write about the merry farmer-- But every time Chopin wants to write a funeral march-- And there's a tendency also-- minor low, major high, kind of thing.

我们早已习惯听到这种模式,因此它算...,要知道,每次,舒曼想写关于快乐的农夫的曲子,而肖邦总要写葬礼进行曲,还有一种趋向,小调低沉,大调高昂之类的

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

So this could be summarized as the law of effect, which is a tendency to perform an action's increased if rewarded, weakened if it's not.

这种行为上的变化被称之为效果律，也就是说，行为倾向随奖励而增加，随惩罚而减少。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

The thought was that the central bank is guarding the money stock and governments have a tendency to sometimes want to raid the bank when they're in trouble.

观点是,中央银行在保护金融债券,而政府当看到,银行陷入困境时,有查抄这家银行的倾向。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Hartman describes Milton's tendency in Paradise Lost, and he takes this term from Coleridge: the tendency to stand ab extra, to stand from outside.

哈特曼描述了弥尔顿在中的写作趋向，并且从柯勒律治那里借用了这个习语：,由外而内俯视自身的趋势。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It's that they seem also--and this is one of the reasons -- Brooks does have recourse to this particular text of Freud-- they also have the curious tendency to revisit unpleasurable things.

而事实上--这一点,是布鲁克斯完全照搬弗洛伊德的-,小说还会抱有一种好奇的心态重温情节中不愉快的部分。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

There's a tendency to hide information.

人们倾向于报喜不报忧

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

There's plainly a tendency in modern literary theory to reduce all the tropes of rhetoric to just these two terms.

在现代文学理论中有一个很明显的趋势,那就是减少一切华丽的辞藻，只保留这两个。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So, investors will have a tendency to try to hide -or people who sell investments will try to channel the good investments to their friends and dump the bad stuff on other people.

所以,投资者倾向于掩盖,或者说是投资产品的销售者会试图,把好的投资产品卖给自己的朋友,而把那些差的留给外人

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He would regard elections as merely exacerbating the tendency to demagoguery where each person seeking office plays shamelessly to the mob promising all manner of things that they know they will not and cannot deliver.

他会视选举不过就是,加剧煽动行为的倾向,每一位寻求官位的人,都会无耻地沦为盗贼,承诺所有他们明知压根儿无法,及不能兑现的政治支票。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

This refers to a tendency for people in making quantitative judgments to subconsciously have their judgments anchored by some arbitrary stimulus.

指的是,人们在做定量估测时,会受外界影响,将某些特定数值作为起始值,而起始值像锚一样制约着估测值

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

There's a tendency for people to say, oh this problem's exponential, I can't solve it.

人们往往会说，哦这是个指数型的问题我没法解决它。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选