July 31, 2008

Predilection

predilection



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[pred-l-ek-shuhn, preed-]

n. (名詞 noun)

          1.    嗜好;偏愛


no_country_for_old_men It's easy to imagine how the Coens, whose Achilles' heel has always been their predilection for smug irony and easy caricature, might have turned McCarthy's taciturn Texans into simplistic western-mythos archetypes: the amoral criminal, the righteous peacekeeper, and the naive but basically good-hearted rube in over his head.

affinity penchant 
smug You've got nothing to be smug about.
caricature taciturn rube


vera-farmiga-0607-lg 
Their firstborn, the nine-year-old Joshua (Jacob Kogan) is a frighteningly intelligent child - to such a degree that he thinks and acts decades ahead of his age. Nearly always clad in formal wear and demonstrating limitless brilliance as a pianist - with a marked predilection for "dissonant" classical pieces - Joshua gravitates toward his gay aesthete uncle (Dallas Roberts) as a close friend, but distances himself from his immediate kith - particularly when Abby brings a newborn baby sister home from the hospital and unwisely alienates the young tyke

clad
穿...衣服的;被...覆蓋的
kith and kin
(總稱)朋友和親屬,親友
tyke
野狗;雜種狗;劣種狗
【英】鄉下佬;村夫;粗魯人
【口】頑童;小淘氣








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