prone

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英[prəʊn]
美[proʊn]

基本释义

adj.
易于…的; 俯卧的; 有…倾向的; 倾斜的,坡陡的

词性变化

实用例句

prone to injury

容易受伤

牛津词典

Working without a break makes you more prone to error.

连续工作不停歇使人更容易出错。

牛津词典

Tired drivers were found to be particularly prone to ignore warning signs.

据调查,疲劳驾车时特别容易忽视警示标志。

牛津词典

error-prone

容易出错的

牛津词典

injury-prone

容易受伤的

牛津词典

The victim lay prone without moving.

受害人趴在地上一动不动。

牛津词典

He was found lying in a prone position.

人们发现他俯卧着。

牛津词典

[不可数名词]proneness to depression

易消沉倾向

牛津词典

For all her experience, she was still prone to nerves...

尽管有经验,她还是容易紧张。

People with fair skin who sunburn easily are very prone to develop skin cancer.

皮肤白皙容易晒伤的人极易患皮肤癌。

Bob slid from his chair and lay prone on the floor...

鲍勃从椅子上滑下来,趴在了地板上。

Since 1991, parents have been advised not to put their infants down to sleep in the prone position.

自1991年以来就一直建议父母不要让婴儿趴着睡觉。

Some people are prone to jump to hasty conclusions.

有些人往往作出轻率的结论.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

Can you explain the prone position to me?

你能给我讲讲卧姿 吗 ?

期刊摘选

Children showed to be prone to poisoning.

报道的病例显示儿童更易中毒.

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All levels of the oil industry are prone to talk themselves into a crisis.

石油工业界各阶层人士都不难说服自己相信有一次危机即将到来.

辞典例句

Sichuan along one of Asia's biggest tectonic faults, making it prone to devastating earthquakes.

四川亚洲建筑缺陷最严重的地区, 它在地震中很受到损失.

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Why is it that we're so prone to forming stereotypes that end up being unrepresentative?

为什么我们那么倾向于形成一种到头来并不具有代表性的成见?

期刊摘选

But banks are opaque and markets prone to panics, so CDS prices could easily be wrong.

但银行操作是不透明的而且市场倾向于恐慌情绪, 所以CDS价格很容易出错.

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They are prone to irrational, bizarre, and often violent behavior.

他们的行为倾向于无理性的 、 奇怪的 、 极端的(常为此).

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The shooting positions, of standing, kneeling, and prone.

当然是射击姿势了, 也就是站 、 跪 、 卧三种姿势.

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Traditional polyurethane rigid foam prone to be deformation foam has low temper and intensity.

传统的聚氨酯硬质泡沫塑料容易产生形变,强度和韧度都不太高.

期刊摘选

Men of the latter category are said to be more prone to traffic accidents.

后一种男人据说更容易发生交通事故.

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However, its too much stress on hypothesis made it prone to subjectivism and skepticism.

但由于其方法过于注重假设,易倾向于主观主义、疑主义.

期刊摘选

He was lying prone on the couch, fast asleep.

他趴在长沙发椅上, 睡得很熟.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

He was prone to indigestion after rich restaurant meals.

上饭馆吃过油腻食物之后,他常受消化不良之苦.

《简明英汉词典》

The police found him in a prone position with a knife in his back.

警方发现他俯卧着,背上有一把刀.

《简明英汉词典》

He was prone to anger.

他易于发怒.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

These plants are peculiarly prone to disease.

这些植物特别容易发生病变。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

真题例句

The question is, how?Lawrence Patihis at the University of Southern Mississippi recently studied around 20 people with HSAM and found that they scored particularly highly on two measures: fantasy proneness and absorption.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

The absorption helps them to establish strong foundations for recollection, says Patihis, and the fantasy proneness means that they revisit those memories again and again in the coming weeks and months.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Fantasy proneness will not necessarily cause people to develop HSAM.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Fantasy proneness could be considered a tendency to imagine and daydream, whereas absorption is the tendency to allow your mind to become absorbed in an activity – to pay complete attention to the sensations and the experiences.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Scientists have found that although we are prone to snap overreactions, if we take a moment and think about how we are likely to react, we can reduce or even eliminate the negative effects of our quick, hard-wired responses.

2013年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Adjective
  • 1. lying face downward

  • 2. having a tendency (to); often used in combination;

    "a child prone to mischief"

    "failure-prone"

同义词辨析

liable, apt, likely, prone, subject

这些形容词均含"倾向于……的;易于……的"之意。

  • liable: 指易于产生某种不利的结果,侧重偶然性,常表示警告或提醒。
  • apt: 口语中常用,指自然的或习惯的倾向,无特殊的褒贬意味,常指在一般情况下发生的事。
  • likely: 侧重可能性,用于指将来,预言希望或所不希望的结果。
  • prone: 多用于人,着重其本性,或倾向于某种错误、弱点或不良行为等。
  • subject: 指确实可以察觉的倾向,也就是总结出来的规律。

同义词

adj.有倾向的;准备的

liableinclinedwillingready

反义词

adj.俯伏的

supineerect

其他释义

supine

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