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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 on liking
 受到試用的,正在試用的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.
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