liking的意思|liking的解释-里氏词典

liking ['laikiŋ]

n. 爱好, 嗜好

liking

[ noun ]
a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment
<noun.feeling>
I've always had a liking for readingshe developed a liking for gin

Like \Like\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Liked} (l[imac]kt); p. pr. &
vb. n. {Liking}.] [OE. liken to please, AS. l[=i]cian,
gel[=i]cian, fr. gel[=i]c. See {Like}, a.]
1. To suit; to please; to be agreeable to. [Obs.]

Cornwall him liked best, therefore he chose there.
--R. of
Gloucester.

I willingly confess that it likes me much better
when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am
bound to seek it in an ill-favored creature. --Sir
P. Sidney.

2. To be pleased with in a moderate degree; to approve; to
take satisfaction in; to enjoy.

He proceeded from looking to liking, and from liking
to loving. --Sir P.
Sidney.

3. To liken; to compare. [Obs.]

Like me to the peasant boys of France. --Shak.

Liking \Lik"ing\ (l[imac]k"[i^]ng), p. a.
Looking; appearing; as, better or worse liking. See {Like},
to look. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Why should he see your faces worse liking than the
children which are of your sort? --Dan. i. 10.

Liking \Lik"ing\, n.
1. The state of being pleasing; a suiting. See {On liking},
below. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

2. The state of being pleased with, or attracted toward, some
thing or person; hence, inclination; desire; pleasure;
preference; -- often with for, formerly with to; as, it is
an amusement I have no liking for.

If the human intellect hath once taken a liking to
any doctrine, . . . it draws everything else into
harmony with that doctrine, and to its support.
--Bacon.

3. Appearance; look; figure; state of body as to health or
condition. [Archaic]

I shall think the worse of fat men, as long as I
have an eye to make difference of men's liking.
--Shak.

Their young ones are in good liking. --Job. xxxix.
4.

{On liking}, on condition of being pleasing to or suiting;
also, on condition of being pleased with; as, to hold a
place of service on liking; to engage a servant on liking.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Would he be the degenerate scion of that royal line
. . . to be a king on liking and on sufferance?
--Hazlitt.

He even takes a surprising liking for Mr. Cliburn, and offers captivating glimpses into the weird home the pianist shares with his 90-year-old mother, his many pianos and Christmas trees.
Vietnam invaded Cambodia in December 1978 and ousted the Khmer Rouge, replacing it with a government to its own liking.
Gemayel torpedoed a Syrian-arranged peace treaty between rival Moslem and Christian militia leaders in December 1985 and Syria now is expected to want someone more to its liking.
"The proof of the pudding is in the eating and many more U.S. companies are liking this pudding," he said.
One reason for the delay was the discovery that "our product wasn't to the liking of Japanese," says The Yogurt Tree's owner, Theodore Edlow.
Glyn and 'It' rings imaginary wisecracking variations on the theme of patrician Englishness meeting American crudeness and liking it.
The dough can simply be patted into a round and laid over the meat when it is part-cooked and the gravy is seasoned to your liking.
"They explained to us that the work we had done in Havana had been to their liking."
But it also shows how difficult it is for brokers to publish material which is not to companies' liking.
Others suggested that Mr. Berman may not have turned the company's operations around quickly enough for his boss's liking.
Prosecutors say the company was trying to pack the board, whose members are appointed by the governor, with members to its liking.
"The market is still liking the dollar but it's getting a little nervous about taking it much higher," said Larry Ryan, senior vice president of foreign exchange at European American Bank, New York.
"West Germany, with its economic power, is already too strong for the liking of many," the chancellor said pointedly.
The newspaper reported that at least one group of creditors, dubious about Shinn's willingness to provide up-front cash in his bid to buy PTL, is seeking a buyer more to its liking.
Political analyst Alan Baron sees a connection: "There's something about people instinctively liking balance" between partisan control of the White House and Congress, he suggests.
But Yeltsin has said that if the central Soviet government's plan is not to his liking he will implement radical and swift economic reform in Russia, the largest of the 15 Soviet republics.
Two boys who picketed a courthouse urging a judge to keep their younger siblings in a foster home away from their homeless mother said Sunday that the judge has decided the case to their liking.
Although not part of government, he is seen as reflecting the views of the Clinton administration on the dollar/yen rate. Another reason for yen strength is the view that the US may find Mr Hosokawa's successor less to its liking.
In the meantime, air strikes continued in the less populous southern panhandle of North Vietnam, and the administration failed to manipulate the press to its liking.
In these circumstances, any interference in those internal developments, designed to redirect them to someone's liking, would have all the more destructive consequences for establishing a peaceful order.
Despite increased difficulty in recent decades in getting local school-tax measures passed, they have found statewide elections more to their liking.
"I'm kind of liking the attention, you know." Mrs. Posey learned of her "death" in April when she didn't receive her monthly pension check from the Railroad Retirement Board.
Shearson, the firm he cofounded, now has about 12,000 brokers, and Mr. Weill is said by associates to have a liking for things big.
"My brother has a habit of not liking the law to tell him what to do," he said Monday.
To the surprise of dealers, the West German government said the bids offered for the bonds in the auction were too low, and yields too high, for the finance ministry's liking. "We would like to finance at a lower cost," one official said.
Yet his promotion could signal a subtle change, more to Moscow's liking, in Eastern Europe.
Fruit is very high in sugar, and sweetness is one of the things we come into the world liking," she said in a telephone interview.
Sir Nigel replied that there was no scope for a relationship. Although the Hanson approach may not have been to Sir Nigel's liking, he has indicated that he would like to sell some of Trafalgar's assets.
In recent months, Sir John has talked to virtually every major car maker about a possible partnership, but found nothing to his liking yet.
If they have one trait in common, it is a liking for strongly-contrasted colours, as we heard quite vividly.

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