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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - He seems to have a penchant for my children.
他似乎很喜欢我的孩子们。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - A penchant for exotic foods;
对异国食物的嗜好； - 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。