penchant
英 [ˈpɒ̃ʃɒ̃]
美 [ˈpentʃənt]
n. 爱好; 嗜爱
复数：penchants
Collins.1 / BNC.14723 / COCA.11438
牛津词典
noun
- 爱好；嗜爱
a special liking for sth- She has a penchant for champagne.
她酷爱香槟酒。
- She has a penchant for champagne.
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.- ...a stylish woman with a penchant for dark glasses...
喜欢戴墨镜的时髦女子 - He had a penchant for playing jokes on people.
他喜欢拿人开玩笑。
- ...a stylish woman with a penchant for dark glasses...
英英释义
noun
- a strong liking
- my own preference is for good literature
- the Irish have a penchant for blarney
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - He has a penchant for loose women.
他有放纵女人的倾向。 - They have an equal and opposite penchant for conspiracy theories.
他们对于阴谋论有着程度相当、倾向相反的喜好。 - Which makes sense, since many of my friends think of me as a comedic ( if womanly) painter, with a strong penchant for governmental interventionist fiscal policy.
这样的结果也不无道理，因为我的很多朋友都认为我是有女性气质的幽默画家，同时又有强烈的财政政策政府干涉主义倾向。