1590s, from Middle French proclivité or directly from Latin proclivitatem (nominative proclivitas) "a tendency, predisposition, propensity," from proclivis "prone to," literally "sloping, inclined," from pro- "forward" (see pro-) + clivus "a slope," from PIE *klei-wo-, suffixed form of *klei "to lean" (see lean (v.)).
实用例句
1. the government's proclivity for spending money
政府花钱的倾向
来自《权威词典》
2. He has a proclivity toward violence.
他有暴力的倾向。
来自辞典例句
3. Now there was added a proclivity to emulate the scale of French colonial rule.
