proneness

基本解釋

The androgenic effects—stamina, initiative, risk-proneness, assertiveness, dominance—should be particularly useful where a woman must depend on her own resources to support herself and her family.
耐力，主動性，自信，敢于冒險，控制欲等，都是男性激素的效應的體現(xiàn)。這些對于自身資源有限在社會上孤軍奮戰(zhàn)的女性特別有利。
This may, says Van Tilburg, at least partially explain the positive relationship between boredom proneness with aggression, anger, and hostility.
Van Tilburg認為，這至少在一定程度上解釋了，無聊情緒多引導一些主動性的情緒：比如攻擊性、憤怒和敵意。

Information on families' religious, educational, professional and political inclinations, the average longevity of their members, their proneness to suicide and divorce and so forth, must shed some explanatory light on the personalities under genealogical scrutiny.
ECONOMIST: M’lords, ladies and gentlemen
They would charge extra for drivers living in accident-heavy urban areas, for homeowners who insist on building in the path of hurricanes, for deadbeats (turns out there's a correlation between low credit scores and accident-proneness) and for teenage boys.
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the fact of being likely to suffer from an illness or have a particular negative characteristic