prone

prone

英[prəʊn]美[proʊn]

adj.易于…的，俯卧的，有…倾向的，倾斜的，坡陡的；

名词：proneness;

例句

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。

Mild mutations in XPF cause the cancer - prone syndrome xeroderma pigmentosum.XPF轻微突变导致致癌倾向综合征着色性干皮病.

Alzheimer's disease and other dementias are prone to placing objects in odd and wholly inappropriate places.患阿尔茨海默病或者其他痴呆的病人会倾向于把东西放在奇怪的完全不适宜的地方.

Diabetics have long been considered particularly prone to infection.糖尿病病人被认为容易发生感染.

These plants are peculiarly prone to disease.这些植物特别容易发生病变。

Such patients are more prone to perioperative ischaemia, arrhythmias, and cardiovascular lability.这些患者更容易发生围手术期心肌的*部缺血 、 心律失常和心血管的不稳定.

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.

The idea was to make it less chaotic and prone to fisticuffs.其目的是为了减少“立法院”的混乱和经常上演的全武行.

The EJB deployment descriptor is complex and error prone.EJB的部署描述复杂而容易出错.

He was prone to dismiss himself as " that well - known crackpot ".他常自嘲为 “ 那个著名的怪人 ”.

同义词

adj.

prone的同义词之：平的;水平的

horizontallevelprostrateflatreposingreclining

prone的同义词之：有倾向的;准备的

liableinclinedwillingready

prone的同义词之：其他释义

forwardslevelforwardflatorreadydisposedwillingliableinclinedhorizontalprostrate

反义词

adj.

prone的反义词之：俯伏的

supineerect

prone的反义词之：其他释义

supine

同义词解析

以下这些形容词均包含 "倾向于……的；易于……的" 的意思

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。

英语四级真题

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 ( ' , 倾向) 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 ( ' , 感受) and the experiences.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

ADJ-GRADED

有（不好的）倾向的；易于…的；很可能…的

To be prone to something, usually something bad, means to have a tendency to be affected by it or to do it.

例句

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。

ADJ

俯卧的；面部（或腹部）朝下的

If you are lying prone, you are lying on your front.

例句

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。

英汉词典释义

adj.

易于…的; 很可能…的

俯卧的

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。

有做…倾向的；易于遭受…的

英英词典释义

Adjective

1. lying face downward

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

"a child prone to mischief""failure-prone"

行业词典

体育： 俯卧的；

医学： 旋前的；伏的，俯的：脸朝下伏卧，另见pronation；