penchant

英 [ˈpɒ̃ʃɒ̃]

美 [ˈpentʃənt]

n.  爱好; 嗜爱

复数：penchants　

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Collins.1 / BNC.14723 / COCA.11438

牛津词典

noun

• 爱好；嗜爱
  a special liking for sth
  1. She has a penchant for champagne.
     她酷爱香槟酒。

柯林斯词典

• N-SING 爱好；嗜好；偏好
  If someone has apenchant forsomething, they have a special liking for it or a tendency to do it.
  1. ...a stylish woman with a penchant for dark glasses...
     喜欢戴墨镜的时髦女子
  2. He had a penchant for playing jokes on people.
     他喜欢拿人开玩笑。

英英释义

noun

• a strong liking
  1. my own preference is for good literature
  2. the Irish have a penchant for blarney
  Synonym:preferencepredilectiontaste

双语例句

• He has a penchant for loose women.
  他有放纵女人的倾向。
• He had a penchant for playing jokes on people.
  他喜欢拿人开玩笑。
• But this may have more to do with the size and structure of the market and the American penchant for professionalism than with ownership.
  但相对于所有制，这一点或许与市场的规模和结构以及美国人对专业性的偏好更加有关。
• As a painter, he showed a penchant for formal figures suddenly released from all constraints.
  作为一个画家，他癖好以一本正经的人物入画，表现他们猛然摆脱繁文缛节后的形象。
• A penchant for exotic foods;
  对异国食物的嗜好；
• Like America, China can still display a penchant for unilateralism that undermines all its careful diplomacy.
  象美国，中国仍然显示出对美国单边主义可能破坏中国小心翼翼的外交的一个倾向。
• This film demonstrated his fine-tuned ear for working class dialects and penchant for deftly crafted plots centered in the criminal world.
  这部电影展示了他对工人阶级方言的高超模仿力以及对熟练剪辑以犯罪世界为中心的故事情节的强烈嗜好。
• His rubbery look, and penchant for wild and extreme behavior has given him a notoriety he delights in.
  他那似橡胶我眼神，以及对狂野和极至行为的酷爱，令他名声远扬，乐此不疲。
• It's not surprising that Olympus has a penchant for attracting a greater degree of controversy than its competitors.
  不意外的，比起竞争者，Olympus有强烈倾向引起更多争议的角度。
• That penchant for power and glory earned him powerful enemies at virtually every step of his ascendance.
  在他几乎每一步的崛起中，因对于权力和荣耀的度人之欲为他招致了强大的敌人。