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    As a verb, to incline means to lean or slope in a direction, or — more commonly — to be inclined to do something means you tend to do it or feel like doing it ("I'm inclined to agree with you"). As a noun, an incline is simply a slope, like a hill or ramp.

    傾向於；傾斜；（名詞）斜坡

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組成in- ("toward") + Latin clinare ("to bend, lean").

同家族的字

  • reclinesame Latin root clinare — recline means to lean back
  • declinesame Latin root clinare — decline means to bend downward or say no

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

inclineverb/ɪnˈklaɪn/

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    To bend or move (something) out of a given plane or direction, often the horizontal or vertical.

    • He had to incline his body against the gusts to avoid being blown down in the storm.
    • The people following the coffin inclined their heads in grief.
  • 2

    To slope.

    • Over the centuries the wind made the walls of the farmhouse incline.
  • 3

    To tend to do or believe something, or move or be moved in a certain direction, away from a point of view, attitude, etc.

    • He inclines to believe anything he reads in the newspapers.
    • I'm inclined to give up smoking after hearing of the risks to my health.

inclinenoun/ɪnˈklaɪn/

  • 1

    A slope.

    • To reach the building, we had to climb a steep incline.
    • The incline can be altered to any grade so as to suit the weight of the door or gate to which the butt is attached.
  • 2

    A portal of a subway tunnel.

    • the Pleasant Street Incline

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。