2009년 5월 10일 일요일

given to doing something

6. ADJ : v-link ADJ to -ing/n
If you are given to doing something, you often do it.[ FORMAL ]    
  • I am not very given to emotional displays.
... Cobuild
given to doing something:  likely to do something; inclined to do something habitually. 
  • Mary is given to singing in the shower
  • Bob is given to shouting when things don't go his way.

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