I have a tendency to talk too much when I'm nervous.

我紧张时总爱唠叨。

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They have a tendency to try to sidetrack you from your task.

他们总试图让你对你的任务分心。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

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。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Professor Yoshino explains. "Shakespeare calls this a problem of ocular proof, the idea that we need to see evidence before we believe in it -- and that,oftentimes, when metaphysical questions of guilt or innocence are difficult for us to answer, we have a tendency to reduce them to questions that pertain to physical evidence.

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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。

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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。

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Give people advice for free, and they will have a tendency to ignore it.

FORBES: Why Do Patients Take Their Doctor's Advice?

But we also have a tendency to talk these issues out at an abstract level.

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But Lord Layard's argument implies that people have a tendency to work too much.

ECONOMIST: Why don't rising incomes make everybody happier?