dispositions

英 [ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃənz]

美 [ˌdɪspəˈzɪʃənz]

n.  性格; 性情; 倾向; 意向; 排列; 布置; 安排
disposition的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 性情;性格
  Someone'sdispositionis the way that they tend to behave or feel.
  1. The rides are unsuitable for people of a nervous disposition...
     骑马这一活动不适合天性易紧张的人。
  2. He was a man of decisive action and an adventurous disposition.
     他是一个行动果断又爱冒险的人。
  3. ...his friendly and cheerful disposition.
     他友善又开朗的个性
• N-SING 倾向;意向
  Adisposition todo something is a willingness to do it.
  1. This has given him a disposition to consider our traditions critically...
     这使他倾向以批判眼光看待我们的传统。
  2. They show no disposition to improvise or to take risks.
     他们不愿意临时凑合或冒险。
• N-SING 排列;布置
  If you refer tothe disposition ofa number of objects, you mean the pattern in which they are arranged or their positions in relation to each other.
  1. ...to understand the buildings from the disposition of walls and entrances.
     从墙体门窗布局来识别建筑物
• N-COUNT (财产的)赠予，转让，分配
  Thedisposition ofmoney or property is the act of giving or distributing it to a number of people.
  1. Judge Stacks was appointed to oversee the disposition of funds.
     斯塔克斯法官被指定监督资金的分配。

双语例句

• When children go to school, they already have "minds"& they have knowledge and dispositions of judgment which may be appealed to through the use of language.
  当儿童上学时，他们已经有了“见解”，即已经有了知识和判断的倾向。通过使用语言就可以唤起这些倾向。
• Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest then others share their happiness with them.
  与他人分享快乐而得到最大快乐的人，是具有高尚情操的人。
• But we maintain there are certainly inherent dispositions, though we don't know whether they are genetic.
  但我们认为一定有某些天生的取向，可是我们不知道这些取向是否有遗传性。
• A complex mental orientation involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways.
  要采取些行动时具有的复杂精神状态包括信心，情绪，价值观，和姿态。
• Such a declaration shall have no effect on dispositions made before that declaration becomes effective.
  此类声明对声明生效前作出的处分没有效力。
• Chaucer develops his characterization to a higher artistic level by presenting characters with both typical qualities and individual dispositions.
  乔叟把人物形象的塑造提到了一个更高的艺术水平，他描写的人物有着独特的气质和个性。
• That is, he would have had the right to make dispositions in the affairs of a gens to which he did not even belong.
  这就是说，他有权处理他所不属于的那个氏族的事务了。
• Two seemingly opposite dispositions among policymakers have done much to bring about the recession.
  政策制定者们的两种表面上看起来对立的倾向，很大程度上导致了此次经济衰退。
• Some affect humanity and tenderness, others boast of having such dispositions from Nature; but he is the only man I ever knew who seemed ashamed of his natural benevolence.
  有的人假装仁慈厚道，还有些人夸耀说这样的秉性乃天性使然；但在我认识的人当中，惟有他似乎羞耻于其与生俱来的慈悲之心。
• Elasticity, solubility, inflammability are paradigm cases of dispositions in natural objects.
  伸缩性、可溶性、易燃性是天然物体倾向性的实例。