Psychologists have recently focused on the tendency to think about something other than the task one is doing.
心理学家最近关注的是，人们倾向于思考一些与自己正在做的任务无关的事情。
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《失乐园》中的倾向，他借用了柯勒律治的这个习语：由外而内俯视自身的趋势。
Another factor contributing to the tendency to deny the assumption of a fixed human nature was that the concept has so often been abused as a shield behind which the most inhuman acts are committed.
另一个促使人们倾向于否定本性难移假设的因素是，这一概念经常被滥用，被当作大多数不人道行为的挡箭牌。
The tendency to develop epilepsy may be inherited in families.
癫痫的发病倾向具有遗传性。
Is the tendency to perform best at a certain time of day immutable?
哈佛商业评论：一个人每天处在巅峰状态的时间是不变的吗？
As a Western scientist, Nisbett actively resists the tendency to create dichotomies.
作为一个西方科学家，尼斯贝特积极地抗拒二分法的趋势。
It melts snow and ice and thus increases the tendency to absorb heat from the sun.
它融化冰雪，因此吸收太阳热量的趋势增加。
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the tendency to miss lunch.
使用电脑时忘记时间的人都知道玩电脑很容易吃不上午饭。
But we don't think it is an accident that the tendency to collect is both for objects and for memories.
我们不认为同时汇集具体对象和记忆信息的倾向是一种偶然。
This phenomenon is known as "recency bias", the tendency to be excessively affected by the pattern of recent data.
这一现象被认为是“近因效应”(或近期偏差)，即一种受近期数据模式过度影响的趋势。
In psychology, the tendency to believe this is how the real world actually works is called the Just-World Fallacy.
在心理学中，把相信这就是世界真实的倾向叫做“公正世界信念”。
Perhaps because human beings have the tendency to forget that they are ultimately responsible for their own lives?
可能是因为人类倾向于忘记他们最终是要对他们自己的生命负责的？
Keep this in mind as you select teams and avoid the tendency to have team members who think and act just like yourself.
记住，在你选择团队的时候，要避免让队员的思维和行为和你一样。
They hope that this in turn will reduce the tendency to develop overly complicated designs that are never fully implemented.
他们希望这样可以反过来杜绝某种趋势，那就是过度复杂地设计一些根本不会用到的功能。
Frame dependence is a concept that refers to the tendency to change risk tolerance based on the direction of the market.
框架依赖这一概念指出风险承受力是随着市场变化趋势而改变的。
Of course he was making a joke, but the truth is that when the road gets too smooth, you have the tendency to become complacent.
当然，他是在开玩笑。但事实是，当走的太顺的时候，你就可能变得自满。
We call this phenomenon "software bloat": the tendency to load an application with features that have questionable business value.
我们把这种现象称为叫"软件膨胀"：在应用软件上加上一些尚有疑问的商业价值。
Herd mentality is the tendency to adopt the opinions and follow the behaviors of the majority to feel safer and to avoid conflict.
从众效应是指跟随或采取和大多数人一样的行为来使自己感觉安全或避免争斗的一种趋势。
The authors observe that the tendency to hire CEOs who have done well elsewhere is most common among firms "with busy and inattentive boards".
作者观察到，雇佣过去在其他地方成绩斐然的人做首席执行官的倾向在拥有碌碌无为董事会的公司中很常见。
To a lesser degree, she says, wrinkles can also be caused by stress, particularly because of the tendency to frown or furrow our brows when we're worried.
其次，压力还会引起皱纹产生，尤其是那些忧虑时习惯皱眉的人。
When tests are written often (note, I'm not implying first), developers have the tendency to write uncomplicated code because complicated code is hard to test.
在编写测试时(注意，我没有暗示是第一次)，开发人员通常倾向于编写不太复杂的代码，因为复杂的代码难以测试。
An even greater distortion in American perceptions of male beauty across racial lines is the tendency to assign distorted norms that reflect racial typecasting.
美国人对跨越种族界限的男性美感的认识存在一个更大的扭曲，那就是他们倾向于用扭曲了的标准反应种族的习惯性角色。
Black carbon is a particular problem in the Arctic and the Himalayan glaciers; it melts snow and ice and thus increases the tendency to absorb heat from the sun.
黑碳是北极与喜马拉雅冰川[所面临的]特定问题；它融化冰雪，因此吸收太阳热量的趋势增加。
When they're not afraid, they have the tendency to become reckless and to create the kind of experience for themselves that will cause them to be afraid from that point on.
当他们不再害怕时，他们倾向于轻率，轻率的结果就是他们又开始害怕了。
Gandevia says the next stage in the research would be to pick some patients who have an abnormal muscle state to see whether the tendency to form this buckling is altered or not.
Gandevia说研究的下一个阶段将是选一些肌肉异常的病人进行观察，看看形成这种卷曲的趋势是否可以改变。
But the study noted that the tendency to hear voices or have other hallucinations may not be caused by caffeine, but simply reflect the kind of people who drink lots of coffee.
但是研究还指出：这些听见幻声和有其他幻觉的倾向，并不一定是咖啡因造成的。只是那些喝许多咖啡的人都反映出这种现象罢了。
I have the tendency to save certain ones for a long time because of a few articles, but then cannot find what I am looking for later... meanwhile the magazines start stacking up.
我有只为几篇文章长期保留某一些杂志的癖好，但之后却找不到我要找的东西了……同时杂志开始堆积了。
Once NMD is deployed, no matter whether it is really effective or not, it would further strengthen the U.S. tendency towards unilateralism, and the tendency to use or threaten to use force.
一旦美国部署了NMD，无论其是否真正有效，都会进一步助长美国在国际事务中的单边主义及使用或威胁使用武力的倾向。
Once NMD is deployed, no matter whether it is really effective or not, it would further strengthen the U.S. tendency towards unilateralism, and the tendency to use or threaten to use force.
一旦美国部署了NMD，无论其是否真正有效，都会进一步助长美国在国际事务中的单边主义及使用或威胁使用武力的倾向。
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