片语

a penchant for Indian food对印度食品的强烈爱好

a penchant for…的嗜好

a penchant for ridicule喜欢捉弄嘲笑

A penchant for cornpone humor质朴的政论文

英汉例句

• still, facebook may have a powerful force on its side: japanese consumers’ penchant for all things new.

  但facebook依然拥有自己的优势：日本消费者对所有新产品的嗜好。

• bearing in mind yahoo「s de-portalization strategy and penchant for cheap and smart companies, which startups do you think will be bought next by yahoo - and why?

  记住yahoo的弃门户策略和嗜好便宜、有朝气的公司，你认为哪家创业公司将成为yahoo的目标呢？-为什么？

• the company spends billions of dollars a year to keep its chip manufacturing plants ahead of rivals and has long demonstrated a penchant for making fast, big chips.

  intel每年花费数十亿美元保证其芯片制造厂能继续领先竞争对手，长期以来有着制造运算速度快的大型芯片的嗜好。

• which makes sense, since many of my friends think of me as a comedic (if womanly) painter, with a strong penchant for governmental interventionist fiscal policy.

  这样的结果也不无道理，因为我的很多朋友都认为我是有女性气质的幽默画家，同时又有强烈的财政政策政府干涉主义倾向。

• along with the fact that i am an easily adaptable person with a penchant for mobility, it’s another reason why my concept of what a 「home」 is, is very abstract.

  再加上我是一个适应力极强又倾向于流动的生活的人，这也是我对「什么是家」这个概念的理解很抽象的一个原因。

• the french have always had a penchant for partially state-owned firms.

  法国一直都嗜好部分国有的公司。

• so if you are a working scientist with a penchant for writing, there is nothing like taking a crash course in journalism and then start writing — and enjoy the best of both worlds!

  所以，如果你是一个从事实际工作的科学家，又有写作的意愿，最好参加一个新闻课程的速成班，然后开始写作，享受两个世界中最好的那些东西。

• mr chávez’s penchant for nationalisation as a presumed panacea for the evils of the private sector is seen by many specialists as part of the problem, rather than the solution.

  查韦斯先生以他所嗜好的国有化作为消除私人企业毒瘤的一付可能的万应灵药，但在许多专家看来，这并非解决问题的办法，而正是问题的一部份。

• a diffident, shuffling stick figure on stage, at the keyboard he had a penchant for lugubrious tempos, affecting profundity and a crashing, bombastic virtuosity.

  虽然他的舞台形象羞怯、粗心、踌躇；但在键盘上，他嗜好悲伤的速度，深刻的感染力，非凡、夸张的技巧。

• still, we」re not convinced that this will revolutionize time management, but if you have a penchant for post-modern analog clocks, then maybe you'll appreciate it.

  我们不敢说它会带来时间管理上的彻底革命，但如果你对 于后现代主义的指针式时钟有所嗜好，那也许你会很欣赏它。

• the change in tone has come with the appointment of a new national police commissioner, bheki cele, who has been called a 「cowboy」 with a penchant for pinstripe suits and panama hats.

  风向的转变缘起于新任命的国家总警监bhekicele，他因嗜好细条纹上装和巴拿马草帽而人称「牛仔」。

• there is also reason to think that our penchant for makingunhealthy choices might be enhanced by the abundance of particularfoods.

  我们也有理由认为，我们做出不健康选择的倾向，也许被大量特定食物加强了。

• the brain also has a penchant for symmetry.

  大脑同样对对称别有嗜好。

• like america, china can still display a penchant for unilateralism that undermines all its careful diplomacy.

  象美国，中国仍然显示出对美国单边主义可能破坏中国小心翼翼的外交的一个倾向。

• a young electronics engineer with a penchant for mathematics at the university of california, berkeley, he was fascinated by the fact that electronics had no rigorous mathematical foundation.

  在加州大学伯克利分校里一个对数学充满热情的年轻电子工程师，被一个事实所吸引，电子工程并没有严格的数学基本原则。

• for barack obama’s detractors, the incident perfectly captured the new president’s penchant for style over substance.

  对于诋毁奥巴马的人来说，这完美的诠释了新总统重视气派胜过实质的嗜好。

• but this may have more to do with the size and structure of the market and the american penchant for professionalism than with ownership.

  但相对于所有制，这一点或许与市场的规模和结构以及美国人对专业性的偏好更加有关。

• he is one of the role models in dan ariely’s new book, 「predictably irrational, 」 an entertaining look at human foibles like the penchant for keeping too many options open.

  在丹-埃雷里的新书中，他也是其中的范例之一。 所谓「预见的不合理性」正是对人类喜欢为自己留有余地的弱点一种戏谑的看法。

• so our hand preference, and our penchant for speech, may extend deep into our evolutionary past.

  所以我们的用手偏好，以及语言能力的倾向，可能早早就发生于我们的进化史。

• most emerging countries have a penchant for highly diversified conglomerates.

  大多数新兴国家倾向高度多样经营的企业。

• the result is a confident account marred by occasional flaws: a penchant for mixed metaphors plus some fanciful lapses and minor factual errors.

  其结果就是一份自信满满的讲述，偶尔有点瑕疵：对混合隐喻的嗜好，一些因想象导致的小过失，以及史实方面的小错误。

• he also had a penchant for biographical parts, winning an oscar for 「the story of louis pasteur」 (1936).

  他对于传记类电影角色也有特别的嗜好，曾凭借《巴斯德传》（1936）荣获奥斯卡最佳男主角奖。