Predilection

predilection







Y

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



n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    嗜好;偏愛





　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





　

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