He is spoiled, arrogant and has a tendency toward snobbery.
他被宠坏了，很傲慢，而且有势利倾向。
These plants have a tendency to grow in the more rural areas.
这些植物倾向于生长在更偏远的乡村地区。
There is a growing tendency among employers to hire casual staff.
雇主雇用临时职员有增加的趋势。
This tendency in his thought is deepened by his suspicion of all Utopian political programmes.
他思想中这种倾向因他对所有乌托邦政治计划的猜疑而加深。
Steinberg suspected this tendency could also have its advantages.
斯坦伯格怀疑，这种趋势也可能有其优势。
Aristotle and Socrates debated the nature of "akrasia"—our tendency to do things against our interests.
亚里士多德和苏格拉底讨论了“无自制力”的本质——我们倾向于做违背自己利益的事情。
It's a tendency which many scholars believe begins in childhood due to parents who overindulge their kids.
许多学者认为，这种倾向来源于童年时期父母对孩子过度的溺爱。
Conversely, teachers who have a tendency to "overdirect" can diminish their gifted pupils' learning autonomy.
相反，有“过度指导”倾向的教师会削弱天才学生的学习自主性。
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。
As the archaeologist Roger Cribb puts it, "The greater the degree of pastoralism, the stronger the tendency toward nomadism."
正如考古学家罗杰·克里布所说的：“畜牧化程度越深，游牧化生活的趋势就越大。”
One strength of the human condition is our tendency to give and receive support from one another under stressful circumstances.
人类社会的一个优点是，人类倾向于在压力环境下给予和接受彼此的支持。
They should also be sceptical of the growing tendency to try to reduce all human traits and actions to the level of brain activity.
他们也应该对试图将所有人类特征和行为都降低到大脑活动水平的趋势持怀疑态度。
While taller wheat competed better for sunlight, they had a tendency to collapse under the weight of extra grain—a trait called lodging.
虽然较高的小麦能更好地争夺阳光，但它们在额外谷粒的重压下会有倒塌的倾向——这种特性被称为倒伏。
In recent years, there is a growing tendency for people to shop online, and most people more or less have the experience of shopping online.
近年来，网购有增长趋势，大多数人或多或少都有过网上购物的经历。
Attempts have been made to curb this kind tendency to incorporate some measure of quality as well as quantity into the assessment of an applicant's published papers.
人们已经做出努力来遏制这种倾向，即将一些质量和数量的衡量标准纳入对申请人发表论文的评估当中。
These legislators argue that such a policy would reduce crime dramatically, since it would take people with a proven tendency to commit crimes off the streets permanently.
这些立法者认为，这一政策将大幅减少犯罪率，因为它将使那些已被证明有犯罪倾向的人永远远离街头。
The wrong kind of leadership will lead to what Cialdini calls "captainitis, the regrettable tendency of team members to opt out of team responsibilities that are properly their."
错误的领导方式会导致西奥迪尼所说的“队长病”，即团队成员选择逃避本应属于他们的团队责任，这是一种令人遗憾的倾向。
Moreover, the tendency for universities to monitor and shape student behaviour runs up against another characteristic of young adults: the response to being controlled by their elders.
此外，大学监督和塑造学生行为的趋势与年轻人的另一个特征相冲突:他们对被长辈控制时所作出的反应。
It's been suggested in fact that jays, corvids known for stealing each other's food, may hide their food precisely because they are projecting their own tendency to steal onto other jays.
事实上，有研究表明，以偷别人食物而闻名的鸦科动物会隐藏自己的食物，正是因为它们把自己偷东西的倾向投射到其他鸦类身上。
Using caregiver assessments and the children's self-observations, she rated each child's overall sympathy level and his or her tendency to feel negative emotions after moral transgressions.
通过对看护者的评估和孩子们的自我观察，她给每个孩子的总体同情心水平以及他们在道德越界后的负面情绪倾向进行评级。
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。
There is a tendency that more and more people choose overseas destinations for their holidays.
越来越多的人趋向出境游。
This is consistent with young children's usual tendency to look longer at things that aren't familiar.
这与小孩子通常花更多时间去看不熟悉的东西是一致的。
He has a tendency to oversell himself.
他爱自我吹嘘。
During glaciations, the lighter oxygen-16 has a greater tendency to evaporate from the ocean surface than the heavier oxygen-18 does.
在冰川期，较轻的氧-16比较重的氧-18更容易从海洋表面蒸发。
When confronted with an uncomfortable set of facts, the tendency is often to double down on their current position rather than publicly admit to being wrong.
面对一系列令人不舒适的事实，人们往往更加坚持他们目前的立场，而不是公开承认自己是错的。
There was an upward tendency in oil shares yesterday.
石油股票昨天有上涨的势头。
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