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发音：[ˈpenʃənt]
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例句：
- The word “penchant” means a strong liking or preference for something, often an activity or a particular type of thing.
- Beyond product sales, the Michelin brothers saw the new customer as a would-be avid traveler with a penchant for discovery.
- She had a penchant for romances, especially those published in Love Story, a pulp magazine that ran from 1921 to 1947.
- Warren Buffett’s penchant for long-term value investing has made him one of the richest people in the world, with a fortune approaching $100 billion.
- While the nonaddicts shared a penchant for risk-taking behavior, the increased gray matter seemed to help them resist addiction by exerting more self-control and making more advantageous decisions.
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解释：
- Penchant这个单词做名词使用，其表示“a strong liking or preference for something”这一含义，即“热爱/嗜好/偏好/强烈的倾向”，与tendency/preference/inclination这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- An American scientist with a penchant for biomedical research, Gofman was aware of Anitschkow’s cholesterol feeding experiments and, unlike most other scientists during that era, he took these results quite seriously. （作为一名热爱生物医学研究的美国科学家，戈夫曼知道阿尼奇科的胆固醇喂养实验，与那个时代的大多数其他科学家不同，他非常重视这些结果。）
—Science - The NFC North champions have won four straight games thanks in part to their defense’s penchant for forcing turnovers, which continued Saturday when they intercepted Baker Mayfield four times.（NFC北部冠军已经连续四场比赛获胜，部分原因是他们的防守喜欢强迫人员流动，周六他们四次拦截贝克梅菲尔德时继续这样做。）
—Sports - She has also shown a penchant for making big moves that her predecessors might have considered brash or impulsive given the company’s reputation for deliberate decision making.（她还表现出采取重大举措的倾向，鉴于该公司以深思熟虑的决策而闻名，她的前任可能会认为这些举措是傲慢或冲动的。）
—Business - Elon Musk is a prolific Twitter user who has a penchant for tweeting his mind and sometimes landing himself in trouble in the process.（埃隆·马斯克是一位多产的Twitter用户，他喜欢在推特上发表自己的想法，有时会在此过程中陷入麻烦。）
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