查询词典 penchant

The occasional Damara and Herero homesteads bear no trace of the Germanic penchant for order; they are tiny mean huts cobbledtogether from sheet metal, elephant dung, car doors, truck canopies, straw and whatever else is at hand.

达马拉和赫雷罗地区的家宅房屋没有保留任何德国式的建筑风格，它们都是一些由金属片、大象的粪便、破烂的车门、大卡车的遮蓬布、稻草以及任何可以找到的东西堆积而成的矮小而简陋棚屋。

Let us imagine a coming generation with such intrepidity of vision, with such a heroic penchant for the tremendous; let us imagine the bold stride of these dragon-slayers, the proud audacity with which they turn their back on all the weaklings' doctrines of optimism in order to "live resolutely" in wholeness and fullness: would it not be necessary for the tragic man of such a culture, in view of his self-education for seriousness and terror, to desire a new art, the art of metaphysical comfort, to desire tragedy as his own proper Helen, and to exclaim with Faust

今日的艺术已显出这种普遍的困难：他们徒然依赖一切伟大创造时代和创造天才作为榜样；人们徒然搜集全部"世界文学"放在现代人周围以安慰他；人们徒然使人置身于历代艺术风格和艺术家中间，以便一一命名，象亚当给走兽命名那样；然而，读者始终是饥肠辘辘，"批评家"则愁眉苦脸，没精打彩，象亚历山德里亚的学者们那样，他们毕竟是图书馆员和校勘者，可怜让书上尘埃和误刊错字弄得失明。

The town's ailing infrastructure 4 was overhauled 5 in the 1870s by Alexander 'Boss' Shepherd, whose extravagant use of federal funds and penchant for steamrolling anything in his way led to a crackdown by Congress that robbed DC of self-government for another 100 years. For the citizenry, it was a high price to pay for a city beginning to look like it might fulfil L'Enfant's original vision of a world-class capital.

整个城市萎靡不振的基础建设在1870年代由 Alexander 'Boss' Shepherd 重新翻修，但由於他过分利用联邦基金，同时强烈主导整修一事，导致美国国会迫使 DC 在接下来的100年，成为一个自治的区域；对於当地人民来说，这算是付出相当高的代价，因为原本这个城市将是一个世界级首都，但此时却沦为如此的情况。

This sunshine girl with a penchant for short bobs, grew her hair out and is looking more ladylike than ever.

这 个总是留著一头短发的阳光女孩留长了她的头发，开始去更有女人味了。

He found props in sex shops and developed a penchant for strong leggy women.

他在成人用品商店找一些小道具做点缀，对健壮而又大腿修长匀称的女性有强烈的偏爱。

Along with two new friends – one a nerd with a penchant for chicken lo mein, the other a man with Down's Syndrome – who help her navigate a rocky and often confusing path, Lily Sinclair discovers that sometimes family is only the people you choose, and that love can come in all different forms.

於是，她和他的两个新朋友－一个爱好鸡捞面的书呆子和另一名患有唐氏综合症的男子，帮助她走过这一段坎坷又迷惘的的路。

Maybe -- just maybe -- he's an emo hobo in disguise, walking amongst the world's non-transients, hiding his penchant for My Chemical Romance and malt liquor behind his clean shaven face.

也许-只是也许-他是一个情绪霍博伪装，散步之间的世界非瞬态，藏匿他喜欢我的化学罗曼史和麦芽酒清洁剃光了他的脸。

Mayne, a rebel known to combine the latest technologies and materials with a penchant for design risk-taking, has been dubbed by some the "bad boy" of building design.

突破常规的缅恩一向以结合最新科技与设计倾向大胆的建材著称，被冠上了建筑设计的「坏男孩」封号。

He is charming and unpretentious, though he has a penchant for moony gyrations and emotive expressions that tend to appall his critics.

尽管在演奏时他恍惚的摇摆和富于激情的表现方式不为所有人接受，但他仍是一位富于魅力且彬彬有礼的艺术家。

At this point, with a limited degree of familiarity with paraxial optics, and believing that only lens designers with a penchant for algebra can understand the subject, the vast majority of students opt out.

这种情况下，学生仅仅熟悉了一点近轴光学的知识，然后就是胡思乱想的假设只有嗜好代数运算的镜头设计专家才可以懂这一门学问，最后，大部分学生选择了放弃努力。

Although translator has turned from being a crystal ball by which the original culture can unrestrainedly penetrate to another crystal ball by which the target culture can freely traverse, the translator's personal embodiment, in the process of cognitive act, are still absent in translation studies. Translators are still subjects without body or simply disembodied subjects.

译者虽然由原语文化可以自由穿透的玻璃球变成了译语文化可以自由穿越的玻璃球，但译者认知过程中的个体体验在翻译研究中依然缺席，译者依然仅仅是一个没有躯体体验的主体。

Chillingly, he claimed our technology is 'not nearly as sophisticated' as theirs and "had they been hostile", he warned 'we would be been gone by now'.

令人毛骨悚然的，他声称我们的技术是'并不那么复杂，像他们一样，和"如果他们敌意"，他警告说，'我们将现在已经过去了。