apt/liable/likely/prone.导航词义：易于…的

1. apt:adj. 易于…的，有…倾向的.指天生具有做某事的倾向的，常后接动词不定式。

This kind of apple is apt to go bad.

这种苹果容易坏。

Iron is apt to rust.

铁容易生锈。

Jack is apt to be impulsive.

杰克易于冲动。

2. liable:adj. 易…的；易患…的.只作表语，指因习惯或倾向性而易做某事或产生某种问题、患上某 种疾病等的，常后接动词不定式或介词 to。

The dog is liable to bite when angry.

这只狗生气时容易咬人。

This area is liable to flooding.

该地区易遭受水灾。

He is liable to catch a cold.

他易患感冒。

3. likely:adj. 可能的.指可能发生或属实的，强调可能性。

Rain showers are likely tomorrow.

明天可能有阵雨。

What is the most likely cause of the problem?

造成这个问题最有可能的原因是什么？

4. prone:adj. 有…倾向的，易于…的.尤指有发生不好或有害之事倾向的，通常作表语，常后接介词 to 或动词不定式。

He is prone to be/being late.

他容易迟到。

My mother is prone to headaches.

我母亲经常头痛。

Kids are mostly prone to eat junk food.

孩子大多喜欢吃垃圾食品。

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1·The words of this report are as apt today as in 1929.

这份报告的措词在当今如在1929年一样恰当。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Babies are apt to put objects into their mouths.

婴儿爱把东西往嘴里塞。《牛津词典》

3·She was apt to raise her voice and wave her hands about.

她常常提高嗓门并挥舞双手。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·She had taught him French and he had been an apt student.

她教过他法语，他一直是个聪慧的学生。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

5·'Scared stiff' is an apt description of how I felt at that moment.

“吓得呆若木鸡”是对我当时感受的贴切描述。《牛津词典》

6·The British prime minister is too apt to cling to Washington's apron strings.

英国首相对华府过于唯命是从。《牛津词典》

7·As he and other researchers examined the question of why teens were more apt to take risks in the company of other teenagers, they came to suspect that a crowd's influence need not always be negative.

当他和其他研究人员研究为什么青少年在其他青少年的陪伴下更敢于冒险这一问题时，他们开始怀疑群体的影响不一定总是负面的。

8·They are apt to be deceived, Miss Tonks answered, with icy sententiousness.

唐克斯小姐冷淡地回答说：“他们容易被欺骗。”

9·Food is apt to deteriorate in summer.

食物在夏天爱变质。《新英汉大辞典》

10·People are apt to confuse the two issues.

人们容易把这两个问题混淆起来。《新英汉大辞典》

恰当的

1·The words of this report are as apt today as in 1929.

这份报告的措词在当今如在1929年一样恰当。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·It was an apt comment.

这是一个恰当的评论。

3·Though Anna Jarvis never married and never had kids, she is also known as the mother of mothers Day, an apt title for the lady who worked hard to bestow honor on all mothers.

虽然安娜·贾维斯从未结婚，从未发生过，她也是作为母亲节母亲，一个恰当的标题为夫人谁努力在所有已知的母亲赐予荣誉的孩子。

4·In many ways, the comparison is apt.

在诸多方面，这个对比是恰当的。

5·Or maybe the food comparison is not apt because diets differ between countries.

不过由于国家之间饮食不同可能用食品作为比较不太恰当。

贴切的

1·'Scared stiff' is an apt description of how I felt at that moment.

“吓得呆若木鸡”是对我当时感受的贴切描述。《牛津词典》

2·The apt citations and poetic gems have adorned his speeches.

贴切的引语和珠玑般的诗句为他的演说词增添文采。《新英汉大辞典》

3·I think this term is apt.

我觉得这个词挺贴切的。

4·Notice that the phrase first functional language here is apt, as everything is based on functions.

注意，这里所说的 “第一种函数语言” 十分贴切，因为一切都基于函数。

5·Having long laughed at his seemingly apt name, Nigerians are far from certain what lies ahead.

在取笑他看似贴切的名字之后，尼日利亚人远不知道前途如何。

适当的

1·Conclusion — an old and apt metaphor.

总结—一个古老的但是适当的比喻。

2·Apt appellation will make the communication go smoothly.

适当的称呼有利于交流的顺利进行。

3·The apt algorithm must be chosen when a great deal of data are being sorted in order to speed up the performance of programming.

当对大量的数据进行分类时，应选择适当的算法，以提高程序的执行速度。

倾向于的

1·The more comfortable we become with these sites, the more apt we are to share personal details about ourselves and let our guard down as we interact with others.

我们对于这些(社交)网站越感到放松舒适，我们越倾向于在分享我们的有关我们自己的个人细节和在与他人互动的时候放松警惕。

2·Part of the problem is that companies are more apt to spend their cash on stock buy-backs and acquisitions that increase share prices but not hiring.

部分问题在于公司更倾向于把资金花在股票的回购和收购之上以此来带动股价提升，而不会去雇佣更多的失业人口。

3·They have very big gains in literal journey, of course more apt character.

他们在文字旅行中有很大的收获，当然更倾向于文字。

4·A beautiful choice, and so apt.

美丽的选择，和如此倾向于。

易于的

1·He is apt to give vent to his feelings.

他易于吐露自己的感情。

2·Impure limestones with interstratified metachert layers where apt to happen fluid rock reactions are excellent for the study of contact metamorphic fluid.

接触变质流体研究主要集中在含有易于发生流体-岩石反应的不纯碳酸盐岩地区。

3·The oligomer is apt to form a larger scale crystal under a low degree of supercooling.

齐聚物在较低过冷度下易于形成尺寸较大的晶体。