incline

英 [?n'kla?n] 美[?n'kla?n]

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復數:?inclines;第三人稱單數:?inclines;過去式:?inclined;過去分詞:?inclined;現在分詞:?inclining;

1. in- "into, in, on, upon" + clin- + -e.
2. 傾斜 => 引申義：傾向。

incline 傾向，傾斜

in-,進入，使，-cline,傾向，傾斜，詞源同acclivity,decline.

incline: incline: [13] Latin -clīnāre (a relative of English lean, but itself only ever recorded in compounds) meant ‘bend, lean’. Add to this the prefix in- and you had inclīnāre ‘lean towards’. This was originally borrowed into English via Old French encliner as encline – a form which survived until the 17th century, when the latinized incline began to take over. The metaphorical use of the word to indicate a person’s disposition or preference dates back to Roman times.
=> lean
incline (v.): c. 1300, "to bend or bow toward," from Old French encliner, from Latin inclinare "to cause to lean; bend, incline, turn, divert," from in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + clinare "to bend," from PIE *klei-n-, suffixed form of *klei- "to lean" (see lean (v.)). Metaphoric sense of "have a mental disposition toward" is early 15c. in English (but existed in classical Latin). Related: Inclined; inclining.
incline (n.): c. 1600, "mental tendency," from incline (v.). The literal meaning "slant, slope" is attested from 1846.

1. Those who fail incline to blame the world for their failure.: 那些失敗者往往將他們的失敗歸咎于社會。

3. I incline to the view that we should take no action at this stage.: 我傾向于認為我們在這個階段不應采取行動。