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If you have a predilection for something, you like it very much, and you keep choosing it. Dictionaries often add that the thing is a little unusual: a predilection for very bitter chocolate, or for walking at three in the morning. The word is formal and a bit . Younger people almost never say it at the table; they say they love it, they are into it, or they have a thing for it. Predilection sounds like a settled taste, not a one-day . You will meet it in reading more than in speech. It is not a guess about the future, even though it sits near prediction on the page.
偏好；癖好（書面語；日常多說「很喜歡」「偏愛」）
組成Borrowed from Medieval Latin praedīlēctiō. The front piece prae- means ‘before’; the rest is about loving or choosing. So the picture is a liking already formed.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
predilectionnoun/ˌpɹiː.dəˈlɛk.ʃn̩/
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A condition of favoring or liking; a tendency towards; proclivity; predisposition.
- The young King looked tenderly at Mademoiselle Mancini, who gave him a glance quite as tender in return—not, however, unobserved. His mother had been for some time past a displeased spectator of a predilection which might become dangerous.
- American operating practice aims at the minimum wastage of time by locomotives at water columns and coal stages, and this predilection for shunters with high capacity tenders is thereby explained.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。