penchant

noun

1. 爱好；嗜爱
   a special liking for sth
   1. She has a penchant for champagne.
      她酷爱香槟酒。

1. N-SING 爱好；嗜好；偏好
   If someone has a penchant for something, they have a special liking for it or a tendency to do it.
   1. ...a stylish woman with a penchant for dark glasses...
      喜欢戴墨镜的时髦女子
   2. He had a penchant for playing jokes on people.
      他喜欢拿人开玩笑。

1. He had a penchant for playing jokes on people.
   他喜欢拿人开玩笑。
2. Which makes sense, since many of my friends think of me as a comedic ( if womanly) painter, with a strong penchant for governmental interventionist fiscal policy.
   这样的结果也不无道理，因为我的很多朋友都认为我是有女性气质的幽默画家，同时又有强烈的财政政策政府干涉主义倾向。
3. Urban, young Chinese consumers told us that they have a penchant for showrooming.
   在中国城市中，年轻的消费者告诉我们，他们偏爱一种名为展厅现象（showrooming）的消费模式。
4. 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。
5. At last an answer to a question that has long puzzled bankers: what deals can you bring a billionaire with a penchant for infrastructure but who seemingly already has everything?
   你能给一位对基础设施有浓厚兴趣、但似乎已拥有一切的亿万富豪带来何种交易？这个问题困扰了银行家们很长时间，现在，它终于有了答案。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. Reno also has a penchant for gossiping and is a competent helicopter pilot.
   雷诺也有一个惯用的流言蜚语和是个称职的直升机驾驶员。
9. As a painter, he showed a penchant for formal figures suddenly released from all constraints.
   作为一个画家，他癖好以一本正经的人物入画，表现他们猛然摆脱繁文缛节后的形象。
10. 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。
11. 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。
12. 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。
13. A penchant for exotic foods; Waiter! There's a foreign body in my soup!
    对异国食物的嗜好；服务员！我的汤里有异物！
14. 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。
15. They have an equal and opposite penchant for conspiracy theories.
    他们对于阴谋论有着程度相当、倾向相反的喜好。
16. 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。
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. He has a penchant for loose women.
    他有放纵女人的倾向。
21. 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。
22. He seems to have a penchant for my children.
    他似乎很喜欢我的孩子们。
23. A penchant for exotic foods;
    对异国食物的嗜好；
24. Yes, basketball superstar Dennis Rodman has a penchant for wearing nail polish, makeup, and ladies'undies.
    是的，篮球巨星丹尼斯·罗德曼有爱涂指甲油、化妆和穿女性内衣的癖好。
25. India, like China, has a penchant for Soviet-style economic planning.
    与中国一样，印度也偏好苏联式的计划经济。
26. During PGDBA, I developed a strong penchant for quantitative-oriented subjects like Portfolio theory, Derivatives and International Finance.
    我对那里读的涉及数学方法的课程很感兴趣，如：最佳证券投资理论、金融衍生、国际金融。
27. 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。
28. 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。

noun

1. a strong liking
   1. my own preference is for good literature
   2. the Irish have a penchant for blarney

   Synonym:    preferencepredilectiontaste