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prone

【英英释义】

adj. to be prone to something, usually something bad, means to have a tendency to be affected by it or to do it. 有不好的倾向的；易于……的（负面）

-prone combines with nouns to make adjectives that describe people who are frequently affected by something bad. 与名词相连构成形容词，表示“易受……影响的”

likely to do something or be affected by something, especially something bad.

【词义深度解析】

prone可以用来替换likely, inclined等表示“有……可能/倾向”的词。常见的用法是 be prone to, 后面常接有负向意义的名词或动词。与名词连接构成形容词。

【例句学习】

1. Japan is prone to earthquakes and typhoons.

    Japan is prone to suffer earthquakes and typhoons.

    Japan is earthquake- and typhoon-prone.

2. Most people are prone to anxiety during a test.

3. But in China and India, young women have been unusually prone to suicide.

4. American football and ice hockey players are prone to injury.

    American football and ice hockey players are injury-prone.

【词汇运用】

1. 搭配：

verb：be/seem/become  prone  有倾向，好像易于，变得易于……

leave/make  sb/sth prone  使……易于

adv：especially/highly/particularly/very  特别易于……

increasingly prone  越来越倾向于……

rather/slightly  prone  相当/有点倾向于……

notoriously prone 因易于……而声名狼藉

accident prone 易出事故的

2. 翻译：超重人群容易患高血压和高血糖。

The group of over-weight are prone to suffer high-blood-pressure and high-blood-sugar. （自己）

Overweight people are prone to high blood pressure and high blood sugar./ People with excess weight are prone to develop high blood pressure and elevated blood sugar. （参考翻译）

分析：动词develop用得很好，有一种动态感，没有suffer读起来那么沮丧。

3. 生活场景运用

Without strict self-contral his body constitution is prone to become overweight.