incline

• vi.傾ける；好意を寄せる；傾向がある
• vt.傾ける；好む
• n. 傾斜

acclivity、declineと語源的には同じである。

incline

incline: [13] Latin -clīnāre (a relative of English lean, but itself only ever recorded in compounds) meant ‘bend, lean’. Add to this the prefix in- and you had inclīnāre ‘lean towards’. This was originally borrowed into English via Old French encliner as encline – a form which survived until the 17th century, when the latinized incline began to take over. The metaphorical use of the word to indicate a person’s disposition or preference dates back to Roman times.
=> lean

incline (v.)

c. 1300, "to bend or bow toward," from Old French encliner, from Latin inclinare "to cause to lean; bend, incline, turn, divert," from in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + clinare "to bend," from PIE *klei-n-, suffixed form of *klei- "to lean" (see lean (v.)). Metaphoric sense of "have a mental disposition toward" is early 15c. in English (but existed in classical Latin). Related: Inclined; inclining.

incline (n.)

c. 1600, "mental tendency," from incline (v.). The literal meaning "slant, slope" is attested from 1846.

1. Those who fail incline to blame the world for their failure.

それらの敗者はしばしば彼らの失敗を社会のせいにする。

2.The men had to slog up a steep mudddy incline .

人々は険しくぬかるんだ斜面を困難に進むしかなかった。

3.I incline to the view that we should take no action at this stage.

私たちはこの段階で行動すべきではないと考える傾向があります。

4. I incline to ( take ) the opposite point of view.

私は反対の見方をする傾向がある。

5.I incline to his opinion on this matter.

この件について私は彼の見方に傾いている。