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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - He has a penchant for loose women.
他有放纵女人的倾向。 - A penchant for exotic foods;
对异国食物的嗜好; - He seems to have a penchant for my children.
他似乎很喜欢我的孩子们。 - 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。