Favour
[feivә]
解釋/意思:
n. countenance: good-will: a kind deed: an act of grace or lenity: indulgence: partiality: advantage: a knot of ribbons worn at a wedding or anything worn publicly as a pledge of a woman's favour: (arch.) countenance appearance: a letter or written communication: (Shak.) an attraction or grace.—v.t. to regard with good-will: to be on the side of: to treat indulgently: to afford advantage to: (coll.) to resemble.—adj. Fā′vourable friendly: propitious: conducive to: advantageous.—n. Fā′vourableness.—adv. Fā′vourably.—p.adj. Fā′voured having a certain appearance featured—as in ill-favoured well-favoured.—ns. Fā′vouredness; Fā′vourer; Fā′vourite a person or thing regarded with favour or preference: one unduly loved: a kind of curl of the hair affected by ladies of the 18th century.—adj. esteemed preferred.—n. Fā′vouritism the practice of showing partiality.—adj. Fā′vourless without favour: (Spens.) not favouring.—Favours to come favours still expected; Curry favour (see Curry).
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例句/造句/用法:
- I thank you for your ingenious paper in favour of the trees. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- But I think their withdrawing is in your favour. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- God was the loving father of all life, as incapable of showing favour as the universal sun. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I got him back for you by means of the girl; and then _she_ begins to favour him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- I thank you for my share of the favour, said Elizabeth; but I do not particularly like your way of getting husbands. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- I made my humble acknowledgments to his highness for so great a favour. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- It is not for myself that I pray this favour, said Rebecca; nor is it even for that poor old man. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- A happy circumstance for France, as the like always is for all countries similarly favoured! 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- A clear air favoured the kindling of the stars. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But it IS supposed that his Lady, who had none of the family blood in her veins, favoured the bad cause. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- What I did mean to say, was, that I never expected to retain my favoured place in this family, after Fortune shed her beams upon it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I don't exactly know,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'how I come to be favoured with the attendance of the present company, but I don't inquire. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- It must be played--in went the yearned-for seasoning--thus favoured, I played it with relish. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Among them, Henry De Roos was the most favoured. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- A man that is ungrateful to his benefactor, in a manner affirms, that he never received any favours from him. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- You have noticed, perhaps, whom he favours with his attentions? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It is the greatest of favours when Miss de Bourgh comes in. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- A group of humble mourners entered the gate: wearing white favours; for the corpse was young. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- It was all right: at present I decidedly preferred these fierce favours to anything more tender. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- My position, Miss Eyre, with my back to the fire, and my face to the room, favours observation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- By favouring this clandestine escape he preserves a shew of consistency to his followers; but mercy is far from his heart. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- But this could be done only by adopting, or, at least, by favouring the tenets of that particular sect. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- You injured me before my marriage, and you have now suspected me of secretly favouring another man for money! 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- She blessed the favouring blindness. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I am not aware of your motive, Miss Wilson, for favouring me with this visit, said the duke. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Even the favouring country, therefore, may still gain by the trade, though less than if there was a free competition. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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