prone的意思|prone的解释-里氏词典

prone [prәun]

a. 俯伏的, 面向下的, 有...倾向的

[医] 旋前的, 伏的, 俯的

They stepped over his prone body.
他们从他俯卧的身体上踩过去。
People are more prone to make mistakes when they are tired.
人们疲劳时更容易出差错。
The childis rather accident-prone.
那个小孩很容易出事儿.

prone

[ adj ]

having a tendency (to); often used in combination

<adj.all>

a child prone to mischief

failure-prone

lying face downward

<adj.all>

Prone \Prone\, a. [L. pronus, akin to Gr. ?, ?, Skr. pravana
sloping, inclined, and also to L. pro forward, for. See
{Pro-}.]
1. Bending forward; inclined; not erect.

Towards him they bend
With awful reverence prone. --Milton.

2. Prostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; --
opposed to {supine}.

Which, as the wind,
Blew where it listed, laying all things prone.
--Byron.

3. Headlong; running downward or headlong. ``Down thither
prone in flight.'' --Milton.

4. Sloping, with reference to a line or surface; declivous;
inclined; not level.

Since the floods demand,
For their descent, a prone and sinking land.
--Blackmore.

5. Inclined; propense; disposed; -- applied to the mind or
affections, usually in an ill sense. Followed by to.
``Prone to mischief.'' --Shak.

Poets are nearly all prone to melancholy. --Landor.

The term, now abandoned, referred to juveniles prone to violence because of mental or emotional problems.
Because of the nature of its business, Nutri/System may be especially prone to charges that its plan is unhealthy.
Asked one leading social scientist, Bhabani Sen Gupta: "What is going on?" With 880 million people on a land mass about one-third the size of the United States, India is prone to major disasters.
Mr Michael Kalisher QC, the prosecuting counsel, said it had stumbled along 'borrowing from Peter to pay Paul' to stave off inevitable failure. Witnesses described Mr Dobson, who had been involved in four liquidations, as prone to exaggeration.
Observers said the sell-off had left the futures market technically weak and prone to further declines.
It seemed ideal for smallish sites, but a terror has stolen up on it, moving east from Somerset up the line of the M5 motorway. Joseph Rock is prone to the disease of fire blight, which enters through damaged bark in winter.
But educators and psychologists have lately criticized it as biased, scientifically baseless and prone to abuse.
It comes down to psychology, says Tom Ryan, head equity trader at Kidder, Peabody & Co. "People are more prone to sell their winners than their losers," he observes.
And it would reinforce the image that the sceptics have of the British economy as one prone to inflation and boom/bust cycles. To raise rates, however, runs very little risk indeed.
Women are more prone to develop osteoporosis because after menopause, the loss of natural estrogen hormones seems to speed the loss of bone mass.
Grossarth-Maticek has developed a six-question personality quiz to identify people prone to cancer or heart disease, Eysenck writes.
But he cautions that the devices, in widespread use only in recent years, are still prone to false readings generated by common petroleum-based construction material.
Bruce Pattullo, governor of the Bank of Scotland, said yesterday that the 'slow change in Britain's inflation prone culture' was limiting the number of new investment projects being launched by large UK companies.
In the past, IBM was prone to seeing the information industry through Big Blue-tinted glasses.
A consumer group's accusation that the sporty Suzuki Samurai is prone to roll over is "inaccurate and defamatory," the automaker says.
"They're prone to self-examination, and so they think about these things and recognize their own frailties," she adds.
GM has also faced charges that some of its automatic transmissions are prone to sudden shifting.
Geological Survey seismologist William Ellsworth said researchers are getting better at making long-term forecasts of which segments of faults are prone to destructive quakes.
Worrying away at the intricacies of our environmental predicament, he sharpens interest in a topic that is always prone to compassion fatigue.
She is a striking blonde who wears big hats and short skirts and is prone to giving wolf whistles when Fred birdies a hole.
On rocky deserts, "the M54 5-ton truck is prone to air hydraulic cylinder failure and power-steering leaks," it says. Batteries don't hold their charge in intense heat, either.
The steering defect makes the trucks prone to suddenly veering out of control without warning.
While the Bjork-Shiley is more prone to fracture than other valves, he says it is less likely than other valves to induce life-threatening blood clots.
But Hearn said the presence of cocaine in Mercado's bloodstream does not mean he was prone to violence.
He was 'fiercely egalitarian and yet an intellectual prone to elitism and cultural snobbery'.
One was the appearance in 1970 of a second FT columnist who did not know the true properties of bone meal, hated heathers, and was prone to run riot on the topic of the National Rose Society's gardens.
Technology stocks are always prone to zigzags, of course, and the Mideast crisis is reason enough for a drop.
When it comes to buying for adults, consumers may be more prone to scrimp.
Since the elderly are naturally more prone to broken bones and to black-and-blue marks, it is harder to identify abuse.
Japan's 124 million or so just-plain-folks are increasingly prone to express their outrage both at the polls and by seeking better options in the marketplace.

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