penchant

He was a wiry, red-haired man with piercing blue eyes and a penchant for grandiose schemes.

他瘦削结实，红头发，有一双目光锐利的蓝眼睛，爱搞宏伟的计划。

Despite the cutthroat nature of the Indian media and its penchant for the sensational, the press has behaved as if it were in an older era.

尽管印度媒体天生残忍，对轰动性新闻情有独钟，但新闻界的举动似乎像是回到了旧时代。

Most alluring as. . . Gotta be Edward Cullen, with all that restrained passion and the penchant for melting glances.

最迷人角色…肯定是爱德华，那克制的激情和那遇冰即化的眼神。

And a new study shows that our penchant for the more vertically inclined might have an evolutionary basis.

一项新的研究表明，我们倾向于更笔直的这个嗜爱可能有一个逐渐形成的基础。

"I don't mind that people think of me like that, " the 75-year-old man says of his penchant for dating younger woman.

“我不介意别人怎么想我”，75岁的老头在聊到与年轻女子约会时如是说。

Ibrahim Rugova, the head of the shadow government, was a soft-spoken man with a penchant for wearing a scarf around his neck.

傀儡政府的领导人鲁戈瓦说起话来声音柔和，特别喜欢在项上戴一条围巾。

My dad had a penchant for buying books. But there was a limited number of so-called "orthodox" books put in the bookcase.

我父亲喜欢买书，但放在书架上的书有限，属于“正统”一类；

He has no time for the theoretical economists' penchant for "efficient" balance sheets that lead companies to insolvency in recessions.

他对理论经济学家对“高效”资产负债表的嗜好不感兴趣，这种资产负债表导致企业在经济衰退时丧失清偿能力。

Naturally, not everyone among them is, but these peoples do seem to share a penchant for orderliness and punctuality.

当然，他们之中不是每个人都这样，但秩序和守时却似乎是这两个民族的共同爱好。

A pirate and smuggler, Baba was an obnoxious miscreant with a penchant for fisticuffs.

作为海盗和走私者，巴巴喜欢动拳头，是一个令人讨厌的恶棍。

But Bryant's penchant for abandoning his man and chasing the ball on defense, could easily provide Miller with plenty of open shots.

但科比又喜欢放弃自己防守的人，转而去对有球队员进行防守，这会让米勒很轻易地找到大量空位投篮的机会。

The last chapter, as is Coupland's penchant, was an index of different zeitgeist terms.

最后一章，按照库普兰写书的习惯，只是不同的时代精神术语的收录。

The FSF has a penchant for puns, and this one seemed appropriate, I suppose. The name predates my involvement.

自由软件基金会对双关语有强烈嗜好，而且我以为，这一个看来好象是相称的。这一名字早在我参与之前就有。

They argue that mankind's prehistoric penchant for mammoth may have had a discernible effect on climate.

他们认为，人类在史前对猛犸象的猎杀或对气候变迁造成了明确的影响。

Mrs Clinton's penchant for spicy food is reportedly so notorious that flight stewards bring jalapeno slices to her with every dish.

希拉里嗜辣众所周知，在飞行途中，几乎每一道菜都要乘务员给她加点墨西哥胡椒粉。

On the strength of his avowed penchant for philosophical thought, they decided that he was a genius.

凭借他自己透露的对哲学思想的强烈偏爱，评论家们断定他是个天才。

His penchant for earmarks eventually led to political trouble as the process became increasingly unpopular with the public.

他总是插手指定款项用途，导致了政治麻烦，因公众越来越不喜欢这样的做法。

This urban center of the Mississippi culture had organized leadership, commerce and a penchant for mound-building.

这座密西西比河流域的文化中心曾经出现过井然有序的社会、繁荣的商业并修建堤坝。

During PGDBA, I developed a strong penchant for quantitative-oriented subjects like Portfolio theory, Derivatives and International Finance.

我对那里读的涉及数学方法的课程很感兴趣，如：最佳证券投资理论、金融衍生、国际金融。

But is our penchant for political pining expansive enough to encompass someone as seemingly irredeemable as, say, George W. Bush?

但是我们对政治渴望的这种嗜好已经膨胀过大足以囊括那些表面开空头支票的人，比如说，小布什？