penchant

英语

词源

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”)。

发音

• (英國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈpɒnʃɒn/, [ˈpɑ̃ʃɑ̃]

• （正统英式）音频：

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• (美國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈpɛnt͡ʃənt/
• 韻部：-ɒnʃɒn, -ɛntʃənt

名词

penchant (可數 和 不可數，複數 penchants)

1. 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. […], 第 I 卷, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC，第 264 頁:

     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，第 640 頁:

     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.

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   • 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年9月22日, Stephen Roberts, “The writings on the wall...”, 出自 RAIL, 第 940 期，第 74 頁:

     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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近义词

• desire，参见Thesaurus:predilection

相关词汇

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法语

名词

penchant m (複數 penchants)

1. 爱好，偏爱

分词

penchant

1. pencher 的现在分詞

延伸阅读

• 查看“penchant”在 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé [法语数字化宝典] 中的释义。