incline

• vi. 傾斜；傾向；易於
• vt. 使傾斜；使傾向於
• n. 傾斜；斜麵；斜坡

in-,進入，使，-cline,傾向，傾斜，詞源同acclivity,decline.

incline

incline: [13] Latin -clīnāre (a relative of English lean, but itself only ever recorded in compounds) meant ‘bend, lean’. Add to this the prefix in- and you had inclīnāre ‘lean towards’. This was originally borrowed into English via Old French encliner as encline – a form which survived until the 17th century, when the latinized incline began to take over. The metaphorical use of the word to indicate a person’s disposition or preference dates back to Roman times.
=> lean

incline (v.)

c. 1300, "to bend or bow toward," from Old French encliner, from Latin inclinare "to cause to lean; bend, incline, turn, divert," from in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + clinare "to bend," from PIE *klei-n-, suffixed form of *klei- "to lean" (see lean (v.)). Metaphoric sense of "have a mental disposition toward" is early 15c. in English (but existed in classical Latin). Related: Inclined; inclining.

incline (n.)

c. 1600, "mental tendency," from incline (v.). The literal meaning "slant, slope" is attested from 1846.

1. Those who fail incline to blame the world for their failure.

那些失敗者往往將他們的失敗歸咎於社會。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The men had to slog up a steep muddy incline.

人們隻得在陡峭而泥濘的斜坡上艱難地行進。

來自柯林斯例句

3. I incline to the view that we should take no action at this stage.

我傾向於認為我們在這個階段不應采取行動。

來自《權威詞典》

4. I incline to ( take ) the opposite point of view.

我傾向於持反對觀點.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

5. I incline to his opinion on this matter.

對這件事我傾向於他的觀點.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》