Слово "penchant". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

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1. Just as he knew the password to his dad’s computer, and thus about his dad’s penchant for watching what Junior and Frank DeLesseps called Oreo sex: two black chicks, one white guy.
   Как и пароль, позволяющий войти в отцовский компьютер (что открыло ему папин интерес к лицезрению орео-секса, так это называли Младший и Френк Дилессепс: две черные телки, один белый парень).
   Под куполом. Стивен КИНГ, стр. 82
2. “I see you have recovered your penchant for teenage silliness, Councilman, and I am pleased.
   – Я вижу, вы снова обрели склонность к глупому зубоскальству, очень рада!
   Край Основания. Айзек Азимов, стр. 56
3. I sighed, and then looked up to find Mr Porrott eyeing me sympathetically. He seemed an understanding little man. ‘Will you go there, yes?’ he asked. I shook my head with a sigh. ‘I could have gone,’ I said. ‘A year ago. But I was foolish and worse than foolish - greedy. I risked the substance for the shadow.’ ‘I comprehend,’ said Mr Porrott. ‘You speculated?’ I nodded mournfully, but in spite of myself I felt secretly entertained. This ridiculous little man was so portentously solemn. ‘Not the Porcupine Oilfields?’ he asked suddenly. I stared. ‘I thought of them, as a matter of fact, but in the end I plumped for a gold mine in Western Australia.’ My neighbour was regarding me with a strange expression which I could not fathom. ‘It is Fate,’ he said at last. ‘What is Fate?’ I asked irritably. ‘That I should live next to a man who seriously considers Porcupine Oilfields, and also West Australian Gold Mines. Tell me, have you also a penchant for auburn hair?’ I stared at him open-mouthed, and he burst out laughing. ‘No, no, it is not the insanity that I suffer from. Make your mind easy. It was a foolish question that I put to you there, for, you see, my friend of whom I spoke was a young man, a man who thought all women good, and most of them beautiful. But you are a man of middle age, a doctor, a man who knows the folly and the vanity of most things in this life of ours.
   Я снова вздохнул и заметил, что мистер Порротт смотрит на меня с симпатией.
   Убийство Роджера Экройда. Агата Кристи, стр. 13