penchant
['pentʃənt]
n. 喜好(倾向)
例句与用法：
She has a penchant for Indian food.
她爱吃印度食物。
n.
1. 强烈倾向
2. 趣味; 嗜好
penchant
词义辨析：
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weakness
aptitude
penchant['peneʃənt,pā:ŋ'ʃā:ŋ]n.1.■[法语]强烈的倾向；爱好，嗜好(for)
penchantpenchant[ˈpə:ŋʃə:ŋ]n.1.■[法](强烈的)倾向, 爱好(for)
[ˈpɒ̃ʃɒ̃]
noun
- [usu. in sing.]a strong or habitual liking for something or tendency to do something
爱好，嗜好
he has a penchant for adopting stray dogs.
他有收养迷路狗的爱好。
- late 17th cent.: from French, leaning, inclining', present participle of the verb pencher
penchant
■The star of the film is Hubie, a shy Adeli with a penchant for red hats and yellow scarves.The love of his life is Marina: she is very stylish.
The Adeli Penguins’ mating ritual is so romantic that Warner Brothers（华纳兄弟影片公司） have made a movie about it, aptly called The Pebble and The Penguin.
■"Entirely suitable, I should have thought," says a man in a P D James novel, "requiring, imagine, infinite curiosity, infinite pains and a penchant for interfering with other people."
“完全适合，我应该这么认为。”P·D·詹姆士小说中的一个男人如是说。“我以为它需要有永无休止的好奇心、不懈的努力和探听他人事情的嗜好。”
■"I've told him about his penchant for taking on guys who could test him and at times making it into a mano-a-mano (matchup), which takes us out of our game.
“我告诉他他自己在对阵时的习惯，以防对手抓住弱点让我们输掉比赛。”
■" 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。
■Some fresh- men complain about his penchant for making commitments that he then may abandon with little notice
一些新议员抱怨他总爱作出承诺，然后又在人们不知不觉中放弃了。
■A sorcerer with a penchant for destructive spells has been running amok in cities and towns in the area.
一位喜欢破坏性魔法的巫师在该地区的市镇横行。
■A 3-year-old male bulldog, Riggs is a drooler with protruding teeth and a penchant for attacking noisy appliances, begging for crumbs and hopping on furniture.
三岁的公牛头犬里格斯长着暴牙、流着口水、爱攻击发出声响的电器、总是摇着尾巴要面包屑吃，还喜欢在家具上跳来蹦去。
■A 3-age-old male bulldog, Riggs is a drooler with protruding teeth and a penchant for attacking noisy appliances, begging for crumbs and hopping on furniture.
三岁的公牛头犬里格斯长着暴牙、流着口水、爱攻击发出声响的电器、总是摇着尾巴要面包屑吃，还喜爱在家具上跳来蹦去。
■A3- year-old male bulldog, Riggs is a drooler with protruding teeth and a penchant for attacking noisy appliances, begging for crumbs and hopping on furniture.
三岁的公牛头犬里格斯长著暴牙、著口水、攻击发出声响的电器、是摇著尾巴要面包屑吃，还喜欢在家具上跳来蹦去。
■The penchant for black hair also extends beyond politics to China's increasingly cutthroat business world, where a youthful appearance is highly prized.
与此同时，中国政界人士对黑发的偏好也在逐渐向竞争日益激烈的商界蔓延，年轻的外貌在中国商界是件很值得骄傲的事情。
■They have an equal and opposite penchant for conspiracy theories.
两党对阴谋论有着一致或是相反的倾向。
■ever since a deadly fox-demon was sealed inside him when he was a baby, he's had a penchant for mischief that doesn't help his lack of talent in ninjutsu...
为了得到更多人的认同，以及成为木之忍村的领袖队的忍者火影，漩涡鸣人和他的同伴展开了一段又一段的冒险旅程...
■Maybe -- just maybe -- he's an emo hobo in disguise, walking amongst the world's non-transients, hiding his penchant for My Chemical Romance and malt liquor behind his clean shaven face.
也许-只是也许-他是一个情绪霍博伪装，散步之间的世界非瞬态，藏匿他喜欢我的化学罗曼史和麦芽酒清洁剃光了他的脸。
■Frank Steiner, Jr. is a German composer, but he's shown a penchant for Asian tonalities in recent years.
于1966年出生于德国弗莱堡。在那儿他学习了古典钢琴，小号和音乐理论。
■It is widely believed that the Peugeot family tired of Mr Streiff's autocratic ways and penchant for confrontation.
人们普遍认为标致家族已经受够了斯特雷夫独断专行的作风和与人争执的嗜好。
■We share more in common with mice than a penchant for cheese, we also like the same kinds of smells.
人类与老鼠的共同点不仅仅是对奶酪具有兴趣，而且还喜欢相同类型的气味。
■Their Gifts are a byproduct of their penchant for visions and riddles, as well as outgrowths of their pursuit of non-lethal combat methods.
他们的奇能产生于他们对于想象和谜语的兴趣，也来自于他们对不致人死地的战斗方式的追求。
■He seems to have a penchant for my children.
他似乎很喜欢我的孩子们。
■He could be timeconsuming with his penchant for anecdotes.
他可以因为对轶事的爱好而浪费许多时间。
■He drew fans as a beloved geek and cheerleader, hitting it off with engineers for his penchant for rattling off technical terms in casual conversation , current and former employees say.
他就像一个令人喜爱的明星一样吸引了众多“粉丝”，他总是在稀松平常的对话中连珠炮似地抖落出一大堆技术术语，仅凭这一点就能和公司的工程师们打成了一片。
■Nor does the island's penchant for equality stop at work-sharing.
他岛对平等的倾向也未因共享而停止。
■Strengthening equanimity, centered within, he should cut off any penchant to conjecture or worry.
他应该达到超然，凝思静虑，斩断疑惑和恶行。
■He may also have to get used to someone with a penchant for picking as well as meeting the team before matches.
他必须要习惯于有个人会在赛前准备会上兴致勃勃的插上一杠子。
■Given his endless patience and penchant for complex schemes carried out in secrecy, it is likely the full results of his machinations will not appear for years to come.
他有着无穷无尽的耐心，而且特别喜欢秘密实施极其复杂的计划，似乎这个阴谋还要好几年的时间才会产出最终结果。
■He was a wiry, red-haired man with piercing blue eyes and a penchant for grandiose schemes
他瘦削结实，红头发，有一双目光锐利的蓝眼睛，爱搞宏伟的计划。
■This was what mingling with humans and Garudans had wrought, he told himself, a penchant for the metaphysical.
他自言自语道：这是人类和嘎鲁达人精巧的混合，纯哲学的兴趣。
■He says that Imelda "had a penchant for luxury and opulence
他说马可斯夫人伊美黛"崇尚豪华阔绰的生活。
■He says that Imelda "had a penchant for luxury and opulence.
他说马可斯夫人伊美黛“崇尚豪华阔绰的生活。
■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。
■4. 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。收藏指正
■But in Taiwan, financial services remain hamstrung, thanks to the government's penchant for interfering with banks.
但在台湾，由于政府动辄干预银行，金融服务业一直束手缚脚。
■Peirsol tied that time at the Olympic qualifiers last month, but given his penchant for world records, he'll likely stroke past it in Beijing.
但是如果他有打破世界纪录的强烈愿望的话，将很可能在北京奥运会上实现。
■But given the electorate's penchant for ballot-box rebellions, all predictions at this stage look perilous.
但是考虑到选民们叛逆性会作用于大选，目前所有的预测都是经不住考量的。
■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。
■After all you're a good 30 feet in length and you have a penchant for materializing out of any body of water, no matter how small.
你足有30英尺长，并且有高超的水遁技巧，无论那块水域有多小你都能借助其现身。
■Further down the path it is as if the shadows are swallowing the surroundings whole, without a penchant of logic or drop of meaning.
促进在它是的道路下，好像阴影忍受整个的周围，没有逻辑意思，爱好或下落。
■The dialogue, Mr Paulson's brainchild, departs from the US penchant for hectoring and advocates constructive dialogue to manage China's economic rise.
保尔森提议设立的这一对话机制，放弃了美国惯用的威吓手段，而提倡用建设性的对话来应对中国经济的崛起。
■Like America, China can still display a penchant for unilateralism that undermines all its careful diplomacy.
像美国一样，中国对单边主义仍然展现出一种兴趣，这一点对它审慎的外交策略是一个削弱。
■Origins scientists with a penchant for geology have long recognized that minerals might provide attractive alternative surfaces where important molecules could assemble.
具有地质学背景的生命起源学者早就认为，矿物表面也许是另一个吸附、组合重要分子的地方。
■Romantics at heart with a penchant for playing the drama queen, the Lion will keep entertained with romance, fiction, drama or adventure stories.
内心浪漫的狮子座喜欢读浪漫故事、小说、戏剧或冒险故事。
■On the strength of his avowed penchant for philosophical thought, they decided that he was a genius.
凭借他自己透露的对哲学思想的强烈偏爱，评论家们断定他是个天才。
■Californian condors appear to have a penchant for collecting pieces of junk, incorporating them into their nests, and feeding them to their nestlings.
加州秃鹫似乎有采集垃圾碎片的强烈嗜好，秃鹫将这些碎片置于自己的窝巢并把它们当做食物喂给雏鸟吃。
■Many foreigners are offended by the North American penchant for jumping in to fill any gaps in a conversation.
北美洲人爱在交谈间隙中插话许多外国人对此感到不愉快。
■Growing affluence, a penchant for eating and a sedentary lifestyle have swollen the ranks of people who are overweight or obese in Hong Kong and China, doctors say.
医生表示，在中国，人们生活条件的日渐富裕，对吃的日益讲究，经常喜欢吃完了就坐着。这些因素导致了肥胖人群数量越来越高。
■A man with a penchant for the spectacular, the Czech ace bagged one of Liverpool's best goals of the decade when he rifled home against Derby County in October 2000.
博格还有一身漂亮的带球技术，在2000年主场迎战德比郡，他的单骑闯关让他收获利物浦十年最佳进球。
■The museum fad is a refreshing contrast to the culture-destroying ethos of Mao's rule.But the penchant for vandalism still lurks.
博物馆热与***统治下的文化（破坏）风气形成鲜明对照，但是仍暗含破坏艺术的倾向。
■A personal inclination or eccentricity; a penchant or flaw
古怪的倾向:个人的倾向或怪癖;倾向或缺陷
■Meantime, their penchant for lending to the vast but ailing small and medium enterprises sector raises the prospect of a jump in non-performing loans.
同时，银行非常乐于向规模庞大、但境况不佳的中小型企业领域贷款，这加大了不良贷款激增的可能性。
■A penchant for voluptuousness and an obsession for sensuality developed in my flesh, the intensity of which is difficult to describe.
否则我就会无力抵抗对快感的贪婪。一种对奢侈淫乐的嗜爱与对纵欲的迷恋在我肉体中生长，强烈得难以形容。
■It was during a summer league that Andersen's teammates took to calling him Birdman, for his long wingspan and his penchant for aerial acrobatics.
在夏季联赛时安德森的队友开始叫他“鸟人”，因为他出色的臂章以及空中特技的爱好。