| 词汇 | prone |
| 释义 | prone adjective uk /prəʊn/ us /proʊn/ proneadjective (TENDING)be prone to something/do something C2 likely to show a particular characteristic, usually a negative one, or to be affected by something bad, such as damage or an illness : 易于遭受（疾病）的;有（消极）倾向的 I've always been prone to headaches.我总是容易头疼。 proneadjective (LYING DOWN)formal lying face down: 俯卧的，趴着的 The photograph showed a man lying prone on the pavement, a puddle of blood around his head.这张照片上一名男子趴在人行道上，头部周围有一滩血。 Compare supine(BODY)formal Reclining crowd-surfing fallen fetal position foetal position full-length lay lean lounge around (something) prone positioning proning prostrate prostration recline sink sink into something sit back sprawl sprawled stretch stretch (yourself) out prone verb[ T ] uk /prəʊn/ us /proʊn/ medical specialized to put someone into a position in which they are lying face down, especially in order to improve their breathing and oxygen levels: How many people do you need to prone a patient? In some cases, proning a patient can remove the need for intubation. Reclining crowd-surfing fallen fetal position foetal position full-length lay lean lounge around (something) prone positioning proning prostrate prostration recline sink sink into something sit back sprawl sprawled stretch stretch (yourself) out You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Physiotherapy, massage & osteopathy -prone suffix uk / -prəʊn/ us / -proʊn/ C2 likely to experience a particular problem more often than is usual: 较常碰到…问题的 accident-prone易出事故的 injury-prone易受伤的 Inability and awkwardness accident-prone adorkable all thumbsidiom amateurish amateurishly fumbling fumblingly functional illiteracy gauche gauchely inexpert inexpertly jack-of-all-trades jack-of-all-trades, master of noneidiom klutzy uncoordinated uneducable unenterprising unequal ungainly prone | American Dictionaryprone adjective us/proʊn/ proneadjective (LIKELY)likely to do, get, or suffer from something: As a child, he was prone to ear infections. Carol’s kind of accident-prone (= seems to have a lot of accidents). proneadjective (LYING DOWN)[ not gradable ] lying on your chest, with your face looking down: The injured player was lifted into a cart and driven off the field in a prone position. Examples of proneprone Cheaters are agents with high discount rates, prone to defraud others in exchange. Positioning of obese patients seems more prone to set-up errors and requires online position verification. However, highly virulent pathogens are prone to local extinction, and there are a number of strategies for persistence. Regulation, however comprehensive and widely ratified and implemented, is unlikely to prove highly successful since it is prone to enforcement deficit. To illustrate, beings with limited cognitive capacities are prone to mistakes in utility calculations. Patients were positioned in either the supine or prone position depending on the type of tumour. More specifically, if students are prone to take criticism very personally, perhaps this may have a deleterious effect on their music education. Manually adding best-fit curves to data plots can be laborious and prone to error. Concomitant to facile availability and media exposure, youth are prone to consume these compounds at a young age. Writing picklers by hand is a tedious and error-prone business. However, using recursive solutions can often be a less error-prone methodology. The result is low wages that make workers prone to unionization. Dichotomous measures (democracy\\authoritarianism) are particularly prone to this deficiency. Sufficiently small bodies are prone to non-gravitational forces, and ejection times are reduced by many orders of magnitude. A perception that the physician has somehow cheated on that expected reciprocation is prone to evoke a most strident form of aggression. See all examples of prone These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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