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penchant

英 [ˈpɒ̃ʃɒ̃]

美 [ˈpentʃənt]

n.  爱好; 嗜爱

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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

    双语例句

    • 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。
    • He had a penchant for playing jokes on people.
      他喜欢拿人开玩笑。
    • 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。
    • 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。
    • Still, we're not convinced that this will revolutionize time management, but if you have a penchant for post-modern analog clocks, then maybe you'll appreciate it.
      我们不敢说它会带来时间管理上的彻底革命,但如果你对于后现代主义的指针式时钟有所嗜好,那也许你会很欣赏它。
    • 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!
    • At last an answer to a question that has long puzzled bankers: what deals can you bring a billionaire with a penchant for infrastructure but who seemingly already has everything?
      你能给一位对基础设施有浓厚兴趣、但似乎已拥有一切的亿万富豪带来何种交易?这个问题困扰了银行家们很长时间,现在,它终于有了答案。
    • He was a heavily built man with a penchant for thick tweeds and British country style.
      他是一个壮实的人,喜好厚厚的花呢衣服和英国乡村风格。
    • During PGDBA, I developed a strong penchant for quantitative-oriented subjects like Portfolio theory, Derivatives and International Finance.
      我对那里读的涉及数学方法的课程很感兴趣,如:最佳证券投资理论、金融衍生、国际金融。
    • 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。