1. Bob has a tendency to exaggerate things.
    鲍伯有爱夸张的倾向。

2. There is a tendency towards regional cooperation.
    有一种地区性合作的趋势。

3. He has a tendency towards pessimism.
    他有悲观的倾向。

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4. His new magazine has anarchic tendencies.
    他的新杂志有无政府主义倾向。

1. 趋势：提野生动物人交配供了速率(Velocity),增殖(Increnment),速度(Rate),趋势(Tendency)等生理学参数. 这对卫生,健康促进,儿童用品标准,预测征兵测量参数演变,国防用具标准化,计算宫内,医院内/外营养摘,制定个体化营养-喂养方案都具有重大理论和实践意义.

2. 倾向性：文章的作者一般都直接或间接地表达自己的论点(arguments)和倾向性(tendency), 并传达出相应的语调(tone),特别是在论说文中更是如此,很多作者通过主题句表达自己的论点,这样的文章比较容易理解.

1. (令人焦虑或不快的)习惯，经常性行为，倾向
    A tendency is a worrying or unpleasant habit or action that keeps occurring.

    e.g. The army has become increasingly restless over the mounting separatist tendencies of the northern republics.
           军方对于北方几个共和国不断加剧的分裂倾向感到越来越不安。
    e.g. ...the government''s tendency towards secrecy in recent years.
           近年来政府的保密倾向

2. (性格中不良的)倾向，偏好
    A tendency is a part of your character that makes you behave in an unpleasant or worrying way.

    e.g. He is spoiled, arrogant and has a tendency towards snobbery...
           他被宠坏了，傲慢无礼，而且经常自命不凡。
    e.g. Helen had been struggling against suicidal tendencies.
           海伦一直在压制心里的自杀念头。

1. a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect

    e.g. the alkaline inclination of the local waters
           fabric with a tendency to shrink

    Synonym: inclination

2. an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others

    e.g. he had an inclination to give up too easily
           a tendency to be too strict

    Synonym: inclinationdisposition

3. an inclination to do something

    e.g. he felt leanings toward frivolity

    Synonym: leaningpropensity

4. a general direction in which something tends to move

    e.g. the shoreward tendency of the current
           the trend of the stock market

    Synonym: trend