It is a wonderfully flexible system, but without a consistent rule of law, companies are prey to the predilections of bureaucrats.

这是一个美好的灵活的体制，但是没有一个始终如一的法律规章，公司只能根据官员的个人偏好来行事。

Predilection for sour mash doesn't make a man stupid.

男人爱喝酸麦芽威士忌又等傻。

This predilection for pointed fangs is not, however, how it has always been.

但对尖牙的这种偏爱并非一直如此。

If you have one at home, you have surely noticed a predilection for certain objects such as boxes, since they love to crawl into them to sleep or explore the world around them.

如果你家里有只小猫，你肯定已经注意到对盒子等特定物品的偏好，因为它们喜欢爬进去睡觉或探索周围的世界。

Normally flu epidemics claim most of their victims among the elderly, but the Spanish Flu had a clear predilection for a younger demographic, those aged between 15 and 34.

通常情况下，流感疫情的受害者大多是老人，但西班牙流感明显倾向在15至34岁之间的轻人。

Unfortunately, human beings have a careless predilection for disrupting this cycle by putting lots of extra carbon into the atmosphere whether the foraminiferans are ready for it or not.

幸的是，人类却意打乱这个循环，把大量额外的碳排放到大气里，有孔虫是否有了准备。

Also, depending on what type you have, supposedly, that may kind of trigger or have a predilection on what mosquitoes favor.

另外据说根据你的血型，它可能会触发或符合蚊子的偏好。

Now, his own predilection is that for him a life would not involve " Silly women, " As he put it.

现在 他比较喜欢在他的生活中没有" 蠢女人" 他是这么说的。

Pachyrhynchus weevils have a predilection for laying their eggs inside the fruit of a mangrove-dwelling plant called the fish-poison tree.

球背象鼻虫偏好把它们的卵产在一种植物的果实中，这种植物被称为鱼毒树，它们生长红树林中。

And others, like wimple piranhas, have specific dietary predilections, almost exclusively going after other fish's scales.

还有一些鱼，比如包头水虎，有特殊的饮食偏好，几乎只吃其他鱼的鳞片。

Some have speculated that it appeals to Chinese people's predilection for categorization.

有人猜测这迎合了中国人对分类的偏好。

Fromthe first day of his rule Arcadio revealed his predilection for decrees.

从他统治的第一天起，阿卡蒂奥就表现出他对法令的偏爱。

It would appear that we both share a predilection for references to Picasso.

看来我们俩都对提到毕加索有一种偏好。

We have a predilection for it because that's how big money is made.

我们对此情有独钟，因为这才是赚大钱的途径。

This contribution to the predilections of demons is of inestimable value to research'.

这种对恶魔偏好的贡献对研究具有可估量的价值。

They seem, however, to have some predilection for the latter.

然而， 他们似乎更偏爱后者。

This winnowing effect together with a strong cultural predilection for marrying and reproducing only within the Ashkenazi community, would have amplified the relative frequency of carriers, boosting TB resistance but increasing the incidence of Tay-Sachs as an unfortunate side effect.

这种风选效应加上仅在德系犹太人社区内结婚和生育的强烈文化偏好， 会增加携带者的相对频率，增强结核病抵抗力， 但幸的副作用是会增加泰-萨克斯病的发病率。

" No, dear darling" ! cried Jude passionately. He tried to take her hand, but she withdrew it. Their old relations of confidence seemed suddenly to have ended, and the antagonisms of sex to sex were left without any counter-poising predilections.

“，亲爱的宝贝”！裘德激动地叫道。他想抓住她的手，但她缩回了手。他们过去的信任关系似乎突然结束了，性对性的对抗没有任何反制偏好。

That my own aim indicated an ideal which is the best for all to pursue, I am far from maintaining. It may be so, or not; I have long known the idleness of advocating reform on a basis of personal predilection.

我自己的目标表明了一个最适合所有人追求的理想，但我绝会坚持这一点。可能是，也可能是；我早就知道，以个人喜好来鼓吹改革是徒劳的。

Others have suggested that Hoover, but maybe even Dulles, knew quite a lot about Kennedy and the Kennedy family and some of the predilections and other things, and that would it be too difficult to take on these power centers?

还有人认为，霍华德可能知道少关肯尼迪及其家族的情况，甚至多伊尔斯也可能掌握了许多信息，包括一些偏好和其他事情，那么他们是否会觉得挑战这些权力中心太过困难？