Neither the human imitative instinct nor a penchant for fantasy by itself leads to an autonomous theater.

无论是人类的模仿本能，还是对幻想的嗜好本身，都不会单独成为独立的戏剧形式。

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She has a penchant for champagne.

她酷爱香槟酒。

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Their penchant for social drama is not—or not only—a way of distracting themselves from their schoolwork or of driving adults crazy.

他们对社会戏剧事件的渴望不是——或者不仅仅是——一种分散他们对家庭作业注意力的方式，或者一种把成年人逼疯的方式。

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He has criticized what he sees as the excessive American penchant for foreign military intervention and over-ambitious efforts to re-make other countries as western-style democracies.

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Which is why pretty much everyone believed it would be France - with its statist and interventionist penchant - which would blow up the transaction.

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Winfrey, known for a feel-good message and penchant for self-improvement, used the final hour to teach one last lesson.

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But he was also a superb rider, winning a remarkable 191 races, including a record 42 stages in the Giro d'Italia, and he has lost nothing of his natural self-confidence and penchant for the sound-bite.

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