penchant
penchant 英 ['pɒ̃ʃɒ̃] 美 [ˈpɛntʃənt]
n. 嗜好；倾向
名词复数:penchants
- A penchant is a strong preference or tendency. If you have a penchant for pizza, you either eat it daily or wish you did.
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- n. 嗜好；倾向
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1. There is also reason to think that our penchant for makingunhealthy choices might be enhanced by the abundance of particularfoods.
我们也有理由认为，我们做出不健康选择的倾向，也许被大量特定食物加强了。
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2. It not known whether it was his stature or his penchant for fashionable sunglasses that once drew disparaging comments from political rival Dominique de Villepin.
不知是他的身高还是他对时尚太阳镜的嗜好因此曾经招致了政坛敌手多米尼克·德维尔潘的轻蔑言论。
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3. 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。
- penchant (n.) 1670s, from French penchant, noun use of present participle of Old French pencher "to incline," from Vulgar Latin *pendicare, a frequentative formed from Latin pendere "to hang, cause to hang" (from PIE root *(s)pen- "to draw, stretch, spin").
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