The truth is that the brain of a healthy person tends toward self-deceit.

事实是，健康人的大脑倾向于自我欺骗。

In tending toward this end, man humiliates himself.

为了达到这个目的， 人在羞辱自己。

His photography style tended toward the classical, calm and dignified.

他的摄影风格趋向于古典、沉稳、端庄。

Persistence, care, discriminating observation, ingenuity, refusal to lose heart, — tend toward it here with special security.

毅力、关心、敏锐的观察力、独创性、拒绝灰心——在这里以特别的安全感趋向于它。

He argued that regardless of how democratic a bureaucracy is in theory, in practice, it always tends toward pure oligarchy.

他认为，无论官僚机构在理论上多么民主，在实践中，它总是倾向于纯粹的寡头政治。

Within the walls of the profession he compensates by tending toward the clinical, the 'practical'--he has won his battle without a struggle.

在职业的围墙内，他通过倾向于临床、“实用”来弥补——他不费吹灰之力就赢得了战斗。

These head shields were wider than the rest of the body, and they sometimes tended toward extravagance, as in the case of Boreaspis, a fish that sported a large spike sprouting from its face.

这些头盾比身体的其他部分更宽，它们有时会显得过于奢华，例如北吻鱼， 这是一种脸上长着一根大刺的鱼。

With his six feet of stature, his extremely slender figure, his long legs, his long arms, his raiment — which always represented the height of fashion and tended slightly toward the flashy — Ryan made a conspicuous figure wherever he went.

六尺高的身高，极其纤细的身材，修长的双腿，修长的手臂，一贯代表时尚高度，略显浮华的衣着，瑞安走到哪里都是引人注目的人物。

Normally, words would tend toward the regular pattern of  adding " -s" or " -es" to make them plural — like how " agendum" became " agendas" and " hippopotami"   became " hippopotamuses" — but a few words tended toward the irregular pattern of zero plurals  instead.

正常情况下，单词会倾向于添加“-s”或“-es”来使其成为复数的常规模式 - 例如“agendum”变成“agendas”，“hippopotami”变成“hippopotamuses” - 但少数单词却倾向于不规则的零复数模式。

All natural systems tend toward balance among opposing factors or forces.