incline

• vi. 倾斜；倾向；易于
• vt. 使倾斜；使倾向于
• n. 倾斜；斜面；斜坡

in-,进入，使，-cline,倾向，倾斜，词源同acclivity,decline.

incline

incline: [13] Latin -clīnāre (a relative of English lean, but itself only ever recorded in compounds) meant ‘bend, lean’. Add to this the prefix in- and you had inclīnāre ‘lean towards’. This was originally borrowed into English via Old French encliner as encline – a form which survived until the 17th century, when the latinized incline began to take over. The metaphorical use of the word to indicate a person’s disposition or preference dates back to Roman times.
=> lean

incline (v.)

c. 1300, "to bend or bow toward," from Old French encliner, from Latin inclinare "to cause to lean; bend, incline, turn, divert," from in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + clinare "to bend," from PIE *klei-n-, suffixed form of *klei- "to lean" (see lean (v.)). Metaphoric sense of "have a mental disposition toward" is early 15c. in English (but existed in classical Latin). Related: Inclined; inclining.

incline (n.)

c. 1600, "mental tendency," from incline (v.). The literal meaning "slant, slope" is attested from 1846.

来自柯林斯例句

2. The men had to slog up a steep muddy incline.

人们只得在陡峭而泥泞的斜坡上艰难地行进。

来自柯林斯例句

3. I incline to the view that we should take no action at this stage.

我倾向于认为我们在这个阶段不应采取行动。

来自《权威词典》

4. I incline to ( take ) the opposite point of view.

我倾向于持反对观点.

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

5. I incline to his opinion on this matter.

对这件事我倾向于他的观点.

来自《简明英汉词典》