penchant

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɒnʃɒn/|/ˈpɛnt͡ʃənt/    美 /ˈpɛnt͡ʃənt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Taste, liking, or inclination (for). countable,uncountable
    — He has a penchant for fine wine.
  2. A card game resembling bezique. uncountable
  3. In the game of penchant, any queen and jack of different suits held at the same time. countable,uncountable

词形变化

penchants plural

词汇关系

近义词
desire

词源

Unadapted borrowing from French penchant, present participle of pencher (“to tilt, to lean”), from Middle French, from Old French pengier (“to tilt, be out of line”), from Vulgar Latin *pendicāre, a derivative of Latin pendere (“to hang”).
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