Favor
['feɪvə] or ['fevɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an act of gracious kindness.
(noun.) an advantage to the benefit of someone or something; 'the outcome was in his favor'.
(noun.) an inclination to approve; 'that style is in favor this season'.
(noun.) a feeling of favorable regard.
(verb.) consider as the favorite; 'The local team was favored'.
(verb.) treat gently or carefully.
弗洛整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.
(n.) The act of countenancing, or the condition of being countenanced, or regarded propitiously; support; promotion; befriending.
(n.) A kind act or office; kindness done or granted; benevolence shown by word or deed; an act of grace or good will, as distinct from justice or remuneration.
(n.) Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity.
(n.) The object of regard; person or thing favored.
(n.) A gift or represent; something bestowed as an evidence of good will; a token of love; a knot of ribbons; something worn as a token of affection; as, a marriage favor is a bunch or knot of white ribbons or white flowers worn at a wedding.
(n.) Appearance; look; countenance; face.
(n.) Partiality; bias.
(n.) A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received.
(n.) Love locks.
(n.) To regard with kindness; to support; to aid, or to have the disposition to aid, or to wish success to; to be propitious to; to countenance; to treat with consideration or tenderness; to show partiality or unfair bias towards.
(n.) To afford advantages for success to; to facilitate; as, a weak place favored the entrance of the enemy.
(n.) To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father.
伊莱錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Countenance, befriend, encourage, patronize.[2]. Support, aid, help, assist.[3]. Humor, indulge, spare.
n. [1]. Kindness, friendliness, countenance, grace, kind regard, good will, propitious aspect.[2]. Benefit, act of grace, good deed, kind act.[3]. Patronage, championship, support, befriending, defence, vindication.[4]. Letter, epistle, communication.[5]. Gift, present, token of good will.[6]. (Law.) Bias, partiality, prejudice.
錄入:泽维尔
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Permission, grace, concession, predilection, gift, civility, benefit, kindness,good_will, regard, condescension, preference, boon, countenance, patronage
ANT:Refusal, denial, prohibition, disfavor, withdrawal, withholding, frown,disapproval, injury, discountenance
塞西尔手打
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream that you ask favors of anyone, denotes that you will enjoy abundance, and that you will not especially need anything. To grant favors, means a loss.
黛博拉編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Thou art with us now and in favor of this of the bridge? 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- You have nevare played--will you do me a littl' favor? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Well, I am glad at least that she makes an exception in favor of my son, said the old lady. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- In that case one of the main points in favor of the accused disappears. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Allow me to present the club key, and with many thanks for your favor, take my seat. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- His suggestions were finally approved, although they did not immediately find favor in Washington. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Therefore go for a favor. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The commercial motorcycle is said to be gaining widespread favor, and therein lies its greatest future. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- So far as my experience with General Halleck went it was very much easier for him to refuse a favor than to grant one. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Especially to gentlemen, added May, with a look which enlightened Amy as to one cause of her sudden fall from favor. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- His sensitiveness to approbation, his hope of winning favor by an agreeable act, are made use of to induce action in another direction. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- A court in equity should not look with favor on such a defence. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- And all this was to have come without study or other inconvenience, purely by the favor of providence in the shape of an old gentleman's caprice. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I do not believe that the majority of the Northern people at that time were in favor of negro suffrage. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Where I came from if a man dares to say a word in favor of the Union we hang him to a limb of the first tree we come to. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The Colonel had his office full of people, mostly from the neighboring States of Missouri and Kentucky, making complaints or asking favors. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- But he favors Putz. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The other lion was the fact that they were poor and Laurie rich, for this made them shy of accepting favors which they could not return. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The solitary woman felt an interest in the ambitious girl, and kindly conferred many favors of this sort both on Jo and the Professor. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- It is an accretion of power around a center of influence, cemented by patronage, graft, favors, friendship, loyalties, habits,--a human grouping, a natural pyramid. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- If ever I should have any little favors to ask of any man, I will ask him at the time. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He favors a true aristocracy as the best means of produ cing a race of supermen. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- If she favors you, love her. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- In the war of extermination that was ever before the great naturalist's eye in South America, what is it that favors a species' survival or determine s its extinction? 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I'm as proud as Lucifer, but such favors from such people don't burden me, and I accepted gratefully. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- If he never said a cutting word about Mr. Casaubon again and left off receiving favors from him, it would clearly be permissible to hate him the more. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- If you were to renounce this patronage and these favors, I suppose you would do so with some faint hope of one day repaying what you have already had. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I don't like favors, they oppress and make me feel like a slave. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
校對:桑福德