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

• 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。
• 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。
• It is widely believed that the Peugeot family tired of Mr Streiff's autocratic ways and penchant for confrontation.
  因此普遍认为斯特雷夫之所以下课是因为标致家族已经受够了他的独断和强硬作风。
• 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。
• 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！
• He could be time consuming with his penchant for anecdotes.
  他可以因为对轶事的爱好而浪费许多时间。
• It was this performance, not his penchant for haiku poetry, that impressed other EU leaders.
  正是这一表现（而非他对俳句的热爱），给其他欧盟领导人留下了深刻印象。
• 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。
• 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。
• A penchant for exotic foods;
  对异国食物的嗜好；