Predispose

(verb.) make susceptible; 'This illness predisposes you to gain weight'.

整理:奥蒂斯

• I have already had experience that my name does not predispose you to an interview; and I ventured to mention the name of one I am in search of. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• There was, indeed, so deep a blush over Fanny's face at that moment as might warrant strong suspicion in a predisposed mind. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• I was predisposed in your favour when you first told me of your conduct towards that unhappy woman whom you met under such remarkable circumstances. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Semi-starvation and neglected colds had predisposed most of the pupils to receive infection: forty-five out of the eighty girls lay ill at one time. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• However, we have discovered that there WAS a predisposing influence against you--and there is one uncertainty cleared out of our way, at any rate. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.

手打:奥斯伯特