be apt to do something

OFTENto have a natural tendency to do something 倾向于做某事，易于做某事 SYN tend to

Some of the staff are apt to arrive late on Mondays.

有些职员星期一往往迟到。

Examples from the Corpus

be apt to do something• Some of the employees are apt to arrive late on Mondays.• One of these was apt to be Catholic Social Services.• Somehow, without guidance and peer influence, cricketers are apt to bite the hand that feeds them.• Farm workers are apt to complain that they now feel like strangers in their own village.• The pond was apt to dry up during summer.• When a moving object catches their attention, babies are apt to focus on it.• He was apt to get very upset when things went wrong.• Our more skeptical age is apt to greet a performance like this with a smirk, as just more fussy Victorian moralism.• Clients are apt to minimise numbers of assignments, whilst headhunters maximise them, and neither are willing to divulge exact figures.• Mr Spock's ears are distractingly perky and he is apt to panic or, worse, to smile.• In the evenings, when I am apt to recede to a withdrawn vacancy, she will come to stroke my hand.

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词汇	be apt to do something
释义	be apt to do something be apt to do something OFTENto have a natural tendency to do something 倾向于做某事，易于做某事 SYN tend to Some of the staff are apt to arrive late on Mondays. 有些职员星期一往往迟到。 Examples from the Corpus be apt to do something• Some of the employees are apt to arrive late on Mondays.• One of these was apt to be Catholic Social Services.• Somehow, without guidance and peer influence, cricketers are apt to bite the hand that feeds them.• Farm workers are apt to complain that they now feel like strangers in their own village.• The pond was apt to dry up during summer.• When a moving object catches their attention, babies are apt to focus on it.• He was apt to get very upset when things went wrong.• Our more skeptical age is apt to greet a performance like this with a smirk, as just more fussy Victorian moralism.• Clients are apt to minimise numbers of assignments, whilst headhunters maximise them, and neither are willing to divulge exact figures.• Mr Spock's ears are distractingly perky and he is apt to panic or, worse, to smile.• In the evenings, when I am apt to recede to a withdrawn vacancy, she will come to stroke my hand. → be apt to do something at apt(1)
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