2019-08-05 gravitate

英英释义：to be attracted to something and therefore move towards it or become involved with it 

“gravitate”是不及物动词，意思是“移向某人/某物””被吸引到”，后面一般搭配 to 或 towards。gravitate 是 gravity（吸引力）的衍生词.

当我们想表达一个人的意愿和选择时，就可以用 gravitate 替换 be attracted to, be interested in 等常见表达。这个词比较正式，但在书面和口语中出现的频率比较高。

注意：gravitate to/towards 本身就表示“被吸引到”，直接说 A gravitates to/towards B 就可以，不要再画蛇添足用被动语态表示“被”。

sentence

1. Most visitors to Beijing gravitate to the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace. 

2. A growing number of developing countries are gravitating towards mobile payment. 

3. Users gravitate towards easy-to-use and beautifully designed apps.

4. The different sexes gravitate towards different types of work. Men tend to take jobs in corporations or organisations that confer status, whereas women tend to be more enterprising. 

5. Labour liberated by technology should gravitate toward tasks and jobs in which humans retain an advantage. 

6. Today, women in economics gravitate towards more people-oriented subdisciplines like health, education, development and labour.

practice

最优秀的中国学生往往会倾向于上北大和清华。

The most outstanding students in China gravitate towards Peking University or Tsinghua University.

参考翻译：The best Chinese students tend to gravitate towards Peking University and Tsinghua University.