| 词汇 | penchant |
| 释义 | penchant noun[ Cusually singular ] uk /ˈpɒ̃.ʃɒ̃/ us /ˈpen.tʃənt/ a liking for, an enjoyment of, or a habit of doing something, especially something that other people might not like: 偏好，倾向，嗜好 a penchant for melodrama/skiing/exotic clothes偏爱情节剧／滑雪／奇装异服 penchant forHer penchant for disappearing for days at a time worries her family.她喜欢时不时失踪几天，这让她的家人非常担心。 Synonyms predilectionformal preference taste Habitual behaviour ADL atavism atavistic counter-tendency creature creature of habitidiom diet habit how sb rollsidiom idiosyncrasy idiosyncratic idiosyncratically leaning ritualism ritualistic ritualistically ritualized ritually routine specialize You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Liking penchant | American Dictionarypenchant noun[ Cusually sing ] us/ˈpen·tʃənt/ a liking for or a habit of doing something, esp. something that other people might not like: Ives had a penchant for musical experimentation. Examples of penchantpenchant In the 1950s and 1960s the penchant was for models of industrialisation, import substitution and programme to eliminate economic dependency. Lacking words was irrelevant given a penchant for decisive action. For what they are worth, my penchants are more contradictory. His penchant for detail leads him to examine the various approaches from all angles. The new observatory provided a perfect opportunity for the exercise of his penchant for spectacular instrumentation. Yet, this rigidity was often blended with a buoyant flair and obvious penchant for the dramatic. His futuristic image combined with his penchant for the seemingly arcane form of opera presented a camp discourse that subverts any claim to privilege. All fathers have a penchant to give something to their daughters. The penchant for undemanding, trivial novels did not have to be satisfied by books alone. The language is lucid, but the author has a penchant for trying to do too many things in one sentence. At his worst, his penchant for hunting, card playing, and drinking makes him appear "idle, dissipated, and extravagant" (119). An example might be humans' penchant to attribute intentionalities to the world around them, even in circumstances where such agency may be implausible. The arts were atrophying from an overly rationalist penchant for mere realistic description. What are we to make of nature's penchant for engineering multiple representations based on slightly different processing needs? Nor, given their penchant for drawing analogies between past and present, do policymakers want to be told that this practice is fundamentally unhistorical. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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