英语
词源
借自法语 penchant,pencher (“偏,倾向”)的现在分词,源自中古法语,源自古法语 pengier (“偏倚”),源自通俗拉丁语 *pendicāre,派生自拉丁语 pendere (“挂”)。
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名词
penchant(可数 & 不可数,复数 penchants)
- 爱好,偏爱
- He has a penchant for fine wine.
- 他爱好美酒。
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- 1960 October,“New reading on railways”,出自 Trains Illustrated, 页号640:
- THE LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. By O. S. Nock. Ian Allan. 30s.
[...] One scarcely imagined, for example, that the great steel works at Crewe owed its existence to Sir Richard Moon's penchant for the principle of "Do it yourself", a principle born of a methodical, economical and far-seeing mind.- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
- 2019, Idles, "Never Fight a Man With a Perm", Joy as an Act of Resistance.
- I said I've got a penchant for smokes and kicking douches in the mouth / Sadly for you my last cigarette's gone out
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
- 2021年9月22日,Stephen Roberts,“The writings on the wall...”,出自 RAIL,期号940, 页号74:
- Just like Marple, there's a plaque at the London terminus [Paddington] commemorating a fictional character - a polite, friendly little bear from darkest Peru who has a penchant for marmalade sarnies.
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
近义词
- desire,参见Thesaurus:predilection
相关词汇
法语
名词
penchant m(复数 penchants)
分词
penchant
- pencher的现在分词
延伸阅读
- 查看“penchant”在le Trésor de la langue française informatisé(《法语数字化宝库》)中的释义。