penchant

pen·chant /ˈpɒnʃɒn, ˈpentʃənt $ ˈpentʃənt/ noun

a/somebody’s penchant for something if you have a penchant for something, you like that thing very much and try to do it or have it often 一种/某人对某事物的嗜好[爱好]

a penchant for fast cars

对跑车的酷爱

Examples from the Corpus

penchant• His friendship with Fujimori gives him unusual access to a president with a tiny circle of advisers and a penchant for secrecy.• A hip-hop beat, more tattoos than a biker bar, and a penchant to take every shot.• Their defense played superbly, but they still showed an astonishing penchant for careless mistakes.• I miss her intellect, her passion, her courage and her penchant for mainlining our nerves.• He carried his penchant for secrecy to great lengths.• Otaka's penchant is for the post-Wagnerian Romantics, particularly Strauss, three of whose works he conducted.• These two raccoon-eyed psychos have lost none of their no-holds-barred energy or their penchant for writing catchy melodies.

Origin penchant

(1600-1700) French present participle of pencher “to lean”

pen·chant noun

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Corpus

TOEFL BNC: 14723 COCA: 11438

penchant

Feelings of liking someone or something: liking, affection, taste...

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