favour

noun

1. an act of gracious kindness

Synonym: favor

2. souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party

Synonym: party favorparty favourfavor

3. an advantage to the benefit of someone or something

e.g. the outcome was in his favor

Synonym: favor

4. an inclination to approve

e.g. that style is in favor this season

Synonym: favor

5. a feeling of favorable regard

Synonym: favor

favour的近义词

verb

1. consider as the favorite

e.g. The local team was favored

Synonym: favor

2. promote over another

e.g. he favors his second daughter

Synonym: preferfavor

3. bestow a privilege upon

Synonym: privilegefavor

4. treat gently or carefully

Synonym: favor

1. 赞同;支持;喜爱
If you regard something or someone with favour, you like or support them.

e.g. It remains to be seen if the show will still find favour with a 1990s audience...
这个节目是否能继续赢得 90 后观众的喜爱，还要拭目以待。
e.g. No one would look with favour on the continuing military rule...
没有人会赞成继续军政府统治。

2. 恩惠;帮忙
If you do someone a favour, you do something for them even though you do not have to.

e.g. I've come to ask you to do me a favour...
我来这儿是想请你帮个忙。
e.g. These are gestures of genuine friendship with no favours expected in return.
这是友谊的真正表现，不期待任何回报。

3. 与人发生性关系
If you say that one person gives or sells their favours to another, you mean that they have sex.

e.g. In her extreme youth, Maria had sold her sexual favours for money.
玛丽亚在非常年轻的时候，曾靠卖淫来赚钱。

4. 更喜爱;宁愿;倾向于
If you favour something, you prefer it to the other choices available.

e.g. The French say they favour a transition to democracy...
法国人说他们倾向于向民主过渡。
e.g. He favours bringing the UN into touch with 'modern realities'.
他倾向于让联合国接触“当代现实”。

5. 偏爱;偏袒;宠爱
If you favour someone, you treat them better or in a kinder way than you treat other people.

e.g. The Government came under fire yesterday for favouring elitist arts groups in the South-east...
昨天，政府因为偏袒东南部的一些精英艺术群体而遭到抨击。
e.g. Another possibility is that parents favour chicks that are strong.
另一种可能性是亲鸟会偏爱强壮的雏鸟。

6. 支持;赞成
If you are in favour of something, you support it and think that it is a good thing.

e.g. I wouldn't be in favour of income tax cuts...
我不会支持削减所得税。
e.g. Yet this is a Government which proclaims that it is all in favour of openness...
但这却是个宣称全力支持开放的政府。

7. 认为…正确;认为…有理
If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.

e.g. If the commission rules in Mr Welch's favour the case will go to the European Court of Human Rights.
如果委员会裁定韦尔奇有理，这个案件将送交欧洲人权法庭。

8. 对…有利
If something is in your favour, it helps you or gives you an advantage.

e.g. The protection that farmers have enjoyed amounts to a bias in favour of the countryside...
农民所受的保护几乎变成了对乡村的偏袒。
e.g. Firms are trying to shift the balance of power in the labour market back in their favour.
各公司正在试图让劳动力市场的均势向有利于自己的方向倾斜。

9. (舍弃某物)宁愿选择;选…(而不选…)
If one thing is rejected in favour of another, the second thing is done or chosen instead of the first.

e.g. The policy was rejected in favour of a more cautious approach.
这项政策未被采纳，取而代之的是一项较为谨慎的策略。

10. 受宠／失宠;得势／失势
If someone or something is in favour, people like or support them. If they are out of favour, people no longer like or support them.

1. 恩惠：24小时不断地为宣教士、失丧灵魂及列国代祷. 自2003年起,多次来到台湾,担任祷告、敬拜与赞美、属灵争战、领受恩膏、婚姻与家庭等主题的讲员. 与妻子拉福(Love)育有三个蒙福的女儿:宝贝(Precious)、恩惠(Favour)和天使(Angel).

2. 赞成：只要有了第一次,就不愁第二次,酒鬼开始表态,拥护这个赞成(favour)卑劣感情的人,声称自己是他的同盟. 很快,不再称他别的什么,只称他为女婿,认为他可以粉碎格拉兹爱娜的抵抗.

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3. 好感：十三、四岁的时候,开始对女孩有好感(favour),但是那时候他离女孩远远的,并且以讨厌女孩自居,生怕被同伴嘲笑. 十五岁的时候,听到大人们说某某男人好花,把女朋友甩了,女孩自杀了. 他觉得这人真狠毒,自己将来(future)一定要做个痴情的男人,

4. 青睐：青衿 the scholars in the ancient time | 青睐 favour | 炉火纯青the perfect skills of doing something