癖好的

For most of the 20th century the home of Silicon Valley and Hollywood has been the brainier, sexier, trendier of the two: its suburbs and freeways, its fads and foibles, its marvellous miscegenation have spread around the world.

在20世纪的大部分时间内，作为硅谷和好莱坞所在地的加州一直是其中较为聪明、性感及时尚的那一个：他的郊区及高速公路、他的狂热及小癖好、他的不可思议及鱼龙混杂都闻名于世界各地。

An unfortunate attempt to discriminate them was made by the jurisconsult Ulpian, with the propensity to distinguish characteristic of a lawyer, but the language of Gaius, a much higher authority, and the passage quoted before from the Institutes leave no room for doubt, that the expressions were practically convertible.

法学专家阿尔比安曾经以一个法学家所特有的辩别的癖好，企图把它们加以区别，但结果没有成功。根据有更高权威的该雅士的言论，以及前面从"法学教典"中所摘引的部分，使我们毫不怀疑，这些用语在实际上是可以通用的。

They use it synecdochically- and one of the problems of knowing a word like 'synecdochically' is that you really want an excuse to say 'synecdochically', and so this whole talk has just been an excuse to get me to the point where I could say 'synecdochically' to all of you, so I'm really sorry.

这是一种以局部指称整体的用法——像我这样认识synecdochically这类词的人有一个癖好，就是要千方百计找个合适的时机来使用这样的单词。

OwnerZhang Yinde says her hen is perfectly ordinary, apart from its penchant for stealing dog food.

鸡的主人张银德称她的母鸡除了有点偷吃狗食的癖好之外再普通不过。

Nixon's penchant for defining issues as "us" against "them" started when he was an undergraduate at Whittier College and sought to join a "circle of swells" called the "Franklins." He was rebuffed and started his own group made up of young people like himself – quiet, hardworking strivers.

& 尼克松热衷于把问题区别为&我们&和&他们&的癖好始于他在惠特学院读书期间，当时他试图加入一个被称为&弗兰克林斯&的&一流社团，但被拒绝了，此后他集合一批跟他性格相仿的年轻人——安静，勤奋——成立了自己的社团。

The singsong sound of Chinese speech, the opium-smoking proclivities of some and the yearning for drink or gambling of others, their willingness to eat what appeared to be odd or unappetizing food--all combined to build a rumor-filled climate of opinion in which Chinese wickedness and depravity were given prominence.

中国人说话的语气单调乏味，吸食鸦片的癖好，性喜饮酒赌博，食用看起来怪异或难以下咽的食物，这加起来便营造出一种捕风捉影的气氛，把中国人说成邪恶而堕落。

I don't have any super crazy quirks or anything that different; I'm pretty normal.

我没有任何超级疯狂的癖好或者与众不同的东西，我是蛮正规的。

One theory for his desire is that it's attached to shame he felt as a child when he couldn't answer his teacher's questions because of his dyslexia. He recalls staring down at feet instead of looking up at his teacher. How complex and counterintuitive is that for the birth of a desire?

关于他之所以会有这样的癖好，一种解释是追溯到他孩童时期，他因为有阅读障碍，在课堂上无法回答出老师的问题，他感到很羞愧，也不敢注视老师的眼睛，只能低着头看自己的脚。

These specters fall mainly into sadist, masochist, scopophilia and obsessive, who have their different propensities as well as some common ones of figurative ego-personality, such as infantile disorder, plain requirement and lack of thought.

主要分为四类：施虐狂、受虐狂、窥视者和强迫症患者。它们有着各自的癖好，也有着一些大体相似的特征，如幼儿习气，平面化需求，缺失思想等。它们是形象化的本我人格。

Per his orders, the stormtroopers under his command had their armor cast in black to match his own particular eccentricities.

根据他的指令，归他指挥的冲锋队员将盔甲涂黑以满足他的特殊癖好。

I'm strongly against the death penalty — it's an eye for an eye.

我不赞成死刑——这是以牙还牙的报复行为。

And to get you the support you need, we're enlisting all elements of our national power: our diplomacy and development, our economic might and our moral suasion, so that you and the rest of our military do not bear the burden of our security alone.

并给你们所须的支援，我们正徵召国家所有各种的力量：我们的外交及发展，我们的经济力量与道德劝说，所以你们与其他军人不须要孤独地负起国家安全的责任。