apt

• He believed maggie was apt to follow the inclination of the moment without giving consideration to the outcome .
  他认为玛吉容易一时冲动，随心所欲而不顾后果。
• Everything was a gamblewho took the greatest chances was most apt to be the greatest winner .
  什么事都是赌博谁肯冒最大的险，谁就最有希望成为最大的胜利者。
• The hero's coal cellar is an apt symbol of the isolation of the individual in an impersonal city .
  主人公的地窖是一个在人们失去了自我的城市里个人孤独的贴切象征。
• He recognized the kind of embittered dialogue which was always apt to crop up when davis was out of sorts .
  他意识到戴维斯每当心绪不佳时，他的话里总是充满着苦楚。
• When high expectations are thwarted they are apt to throw the confident individual into the blackest pessimism .
  过高的期望受到挫折，可以使自信的人陷入失望的深渊。
• The words were very apt to my case, and made some impression upon my thoughts at the time of reading them .
  这句话对于我非常切合，在读到的时候给了我一个很深的印象。
• When foreign executives speak of their american counterparts, they are apt to be more scornful than awestruck .
  当国外的经理们谈到他们的美国同行时，往往是轻蔑多于敬畏。
• People are apt to petrify, even at a university, if they follow the same paths too persistently .
  当有些人钻进牛角尖的时候，即使是在大学学府里，他们也会变得冥顽不化的。
• In this kind of contests some of those involved--and their reputations--are apt to get bruised .
  在这种双方对阵的情况下，凡是被卷进去的人，以及他们的名声，都难免要受伤害的。
• Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home .
  一个人在家里受惯了泼妇的教训，到外面是最容易处处随和，事事顺从。