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

• 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。
• India, like China, has a penchant for Soviet-style economic planning.
  与中国一样，印度也偏好苏联式的计划经济。
• Yes, basketball superstar Dennis Rodman has a penchant for wearing nail polish, makeup, and ladies'undies.
  是的，篮球巨星丹尼斯·罗德曼有爱涂指甲油、化妆和穿女性内衣的癖好。
• He has a penchant for loose women.
  他有放纵女人的倾向。
• For all his tomfoolery, the big cat does have a naughty streak and a penchant for eating sofas.
  在恩佐所有无聊的举动中，它有个十分淘气的爱好&吃沙发。
• 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; Waiter! There's a foreign body in my soup!
  对异国食物的嗜好；服务员！我的汤里有异物！
• 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。
• His most recent project, a family home in Oporto in Portugal, demonstrates this penchant with bold and colourful details inspired by Transformers.
  他最近的项目，一个家庭的家中，在葡萄牙波尔图，证明了这一倾向的大胆和色彩缤纷的细节启发变压器。
• Most emerging countries have a penchant for highly diversified conglomerates.
  大多数新兴国家倾向高度多样经营的企业。