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But there may already have been something going on in their bodies that predisposed them to walk on two legs — like standing up and "walking" in the trees.
但可能有一些事情已經在他們的身體里發(fā)生了，讓他們會傾向于利用兩條腿走路，像站在樹枝上，以及走在樹枝上。
They have focused more on how beliefs in free will might affect our behaviour and whether, more generally, there might be some reason why we seem predisposed to think we have it.
他們更關注自由意志的信念如何影響我們的行為，以及更普遍的，這里面是否有些原因，為什么我們先驗地認為我們是有自由意志的呢。
But Barrett and her team wanted to answer another question: Once hearsay has predisposed us to see someone in a certain way, is it possible that we literally see them differently?
但巴雷特和她的團隊要回答另一個問題：一旦傳聞已經讓我們傾向以某種方式看待某人，那是不是基本上我們看他們的眼光就不同了呢？

In other words, my experience I think predisposed me to being interested in the kind of phenomena that people in these extreme and unusual environments encounter. With Shackletons experience in mind, John Geiger started to investigate whether other people facing death or extreme fear had faced similar situations.
Some of them are predisposed to dislike Saussure and to hope that they can somehow discredit him by learning more about things that he thought that aren't actually in the text.
那些不喜歡他的人們,希望能找出更多書中沒有提到的,他的思想，以打擊此書的權威性。
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She says the pictures could play a role but one would have to be in a predisposed state then one may see the morbid murals with very different eyes, which could adversely affect someone.

Or does it show that Picower was predisposed to getting caught in such an investment scam?
FORBES: Madoff Was Not Jeffry Picower's First Ponzi Scheme Experience

to be more likely than other people to have a medical condition or to behave in a particular way

If something predisposes you to think or behave in a particular way, it makes it likely that you will think or behave in that way.
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If something predisposes you to a disease or illness, it makes it likely that you will suffer from that disease or illness.
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