predisposed

音标发音

But there may already have been something going on in their bodies that predisposed them to walk on two legs — like standing up and "walking" in the trees.
但可能有一些事情已经在他们的身体里发生了，让他们会倾向于利用两条腿走路，像站在树枝上，以及走在树枝上。
They have focused more on how beliefs in free will might affect our behaviour and whether, more generally, there might be some reason why we seem predisposed to think we have it.
他们更关注自由意志的信念如何影响我们的行为，以及更普遍的，这里面是否有些原因，为什么我们先验地认为我们是有自由意志的呢。
But Barrett and her team wanted to answer another question: Once hearsay has predisposed us to see someone in a certain way, is it possible that we literally see them differently?
但巴雷特和她的团队要回答另一个问题：一旦传闻已经让我们倾向以某种方式看待某人，那是不是基本上我们看他们的眼光就不同了呢？

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。
耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选
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?
FORBES: Madoff Was Not Jeffry Picower's First Ponzi Scheme Experience

to be more likely than other people to have a medical condition or to behave in a particular way

If something predisposes you to think or behave in a particular way, it makes it likely that you will think or behave in that way.
predisposed
If something predisposes you to a disease or illness, it makes it likely that you will suffer from that disease or illness.
predisposed