trend 同 tendency 有咩唔同?

2006-12-24 5:26 pm
意思唔同?

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2006-12-24 6:06 pm
✔ 最佳答案
trend = "時尚,趨勢"
e.g. "The current trend is towards informal clothing."
something going better and to be used commonly.

tendency = "趨勢,傾向"
e.g. "The car has a tendency towards broken down."
something going worse and to be used with more technical background.
2006-12-24 8:20 pm
trend:
n.[C]
1. (海岸、河流等的)走向
The mountains have a western trend.
群山向西延伸。
2. 趨勢,傾向;時尚
The current trend is towards informal clothing.
目前的趨勢是穿著比較隨便。
vi.[(+towards)]
1. 伸向;折向,轉向
The road trends to the north.
這條路是向北的。
2. 趨向,傾向
Share prices have been trending down.
股票價格一直趨向下降。

tendency:
n.[C]
1. 傾向;癖性;天分[(+to/toward)][+to-v]
He has a tendency towards pessimism.
他有悲觀的傾向。
Bob has a tendency to exaggerate things.
鮑伯有愛誇張的傾向。
2. 趨勢,潮流[(+to/toward)][+to-v]
There is a tendency towards regional cooperation.
有一種地區性合作的趨勢。
3. 傾向;意向
His new magazine has anarchic tendencies.
他的新雜誌有無政府主義傾向。
4. 政治團體
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