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
- 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 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。 - He had a penchant for playing jokes on people.
他喜欢拿人开玩笑。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Like America, China can still display a penchant for unilateralism that undermines all its careful diplomacy.
象美国,中国仍然显示出对美国单边主义可能破坏中国小心翼翼的外交的一个倾向。 - 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。