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基本解释

Likewise, the assumption that parents are predisposed to love their children unconditionally and protect them from harm is not universally true.
同样地，父母被先入为主地认为无条件地爱他们的子女，保护他们不受伤害，这个假设并非放诸四海而皆准。
Others are born predisposed to view themselves in a negative light because of their physical appearance, a disability, or for no reason anyone, including themselves, knows.
另一些人生来就对自己有一种消极的倾向，因为他们的外表、残疾，或者没有人知道的原因。
But even the cultural transmission of economic success is a provocative notion, and a painful one to most economists, who are predisposed to hope that good policies alone may promote economic growth.
但对大多数经济学家而言，即便是经济上的成功能通过文化传递这种观点也会引起争议和痛苦。这些经济学家本来希望单靠好的策略就能推动经济上的增长。

In other words, my experience I think predisposed me to being interested in the kind of phenomena that people in these extreme and unusual environments encounter. With Shackletons experience in mind, John Geiger started to investigate whether other people facing death or extreme fear had faced similar situations.
Some of them are predisposed to dislike Saussure and to hope that they can somehow discredit him by learning more about things that he thought that aren't actually in the text.
那些不喜欢他的人们,希望能找出更多书中没有提到的,他的思想，以打击此书的权威性。
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She says the pictures could play a role but one would have to be in a predisposed state then one may see the morbid murals with very different eyes, which could adversely affect someone.

Or does it show that Picower was predisposed to getting caught in such an investment scam?
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