penchant
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借自法語 penchant，pencher (“偏，倾向”)的现在分词，源自中古法語，源自古法語 pengier (“偏倚”)，源自通俗拉丁語 *pendicāre，派生自拉丁語 pendere (“挂”)。
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penchant (可數 和 不可數，複數 penchants)
- 爱好，偏爱
- He has a penchant for fine wine.
- 他爱好美酒。
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], 章號 XXII, 出自 Francesca Carrara. […], 卷 I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC，頁號 264:
- Marie even then began the course which, in after-years, secured her so vast an influence in the court,—alternately taking up and laying down her claim to the youthful monarch's penchant; administering to his amusement, and ready to encourage his passing fancies.
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- 1960 October, “New reading on railways”, 出自 Trains Illustrated，頁號 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.- （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）
- 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
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- 2021 9月 22, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, 出自 RAIL, 期 940，頁號 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.
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penchant m (複數 penchants)
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penchant
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- 查看“penchant”在le Trésor de la langue française informatisé（《法语数字化宝库》）中的释义。