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penchant

/pen-chuhnt; French pahn-shahn/US // ˈpɛn tʃənt; French pɑ̃ˈʃɑ̃ //UK // (ˈpɒŋʃɒŋ) //

癖好,嗜好,爱好者,偏爱

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a strong inclination, taste, or liking for something: a penchant for outdoor sports.

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Examples

  • Douek said that while she can only speculate as to YouTube’s motives, she suspects that its penchant for avoiding headlines is at least partly intentional.

  • Delaney, a 39-year-old IT consultant, already had a penchant for activism.

  • Unless you’re a legal expert or have a penchant for nosing through dense legal documents, across not just the EEOC but other relevant regulatory bodies, things can start to get easily tangled.

  • He was traded to the Atlanta Hawks in 2015, where he struggled early but found his game — and his penchant for 3-point shooting.

  • They have a penchant for travel far greater than their heterosexual counterparts.

  • This penchant for medical internationalism goes back to the greatest icon of the revolution, Ernesto “Che” Guevara.

  • The CIA has a penchant for such hilarious and sometimes depraved schemes.

  • Reality-show deal aside, Weeks has a penchant for talking about her poverty.

  • Let this be a warning for rich men who have a penchant for younger women—they can be quite jealous.

  • Unlike his falsetto and his "cool dad" penchant for fedoras, this rumored affair is just so not cute.

  • Of refined tastes, including a penchant for blue china, being a thriving bachelor, he was able to gratify them.

  • Excellent company; a frequenter of the home of Mme. de la Baudraye, where he satisfied his penchant for gaming.

  • These higher flights from Tootles always moved Pansy, who had a penchant for refined romance.

  • My landlord had a great penchant, like other Frenchmen of that day, for conversing on the subject of duelling.

  • Ling Chu on the contrary had a penchant for buses and seemed to enjoy them.