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favor怎么读

音标:英 ['feɪvə] 美['fevɚ]

favor是什么意思

  • vt. 赞成;喜欢;像;赐予;证实
  • n. 喜爱;欢心;好感

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favor的词态变化


复数: favors;第三人称单数: favors;过去式: favored;过去分词: favored;现在分词: favoring;

中文词源


favor 恩惠,好感,偏好

来自拉丁语favere, 好感,来自PIE*ghow, 尊敬,崇拜,词源同gaze.古罗马学者西塞罗将该词词义弱化为亲切,友好,偏好。

英文词源


favor (n.)
c. 1300, "attractiveness, beauty, charm" (archaic), from Old French favor "a favor; approval, praise; applause; partiality" (13c., Modern French faveur), from Latin favorem (nominative favor) "good will, inclination, partiality, support," coined by Cicero from stem of favere "to show kindness to," from PIE *ghow-e- "to honor, revere, worship" (cognate: Old Norse ga "to heed").

Meaning "good will, kind regard" is from mid-14c. in English; sense of "act of kindness, a kindness done" is from late 14c. Meaning "bias, partiality" is from late 14c. Meaning "thing given as a mark of favor" is from late 15c. Phrase in favor of recorded from 1560s.
favor (v.)
mid-14c., "to regard with favor, indulge, treat with partiality," from Old French favorer, from favor "a favor, partiality" (see favor (n.)). Meaning "to resemble, look somewhat like" is from c. 1600. Related: Favored; favoring.

favor的双语例句


1. Recent opinion polls show that 60 percent favor abortion under certain circumstances.
最近的民意调查显示,60%的人赞成在某些情况下可以堕胎。

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2. Safire writes hilariously of being banished from presidential favor.
萨菲尔笔锋幽默,描写了自己没能博取总统好感的事。

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3. Good old Bergen would do him the favor.
好心肠的老伯根会帮他这个忙的。

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4. The margin in favor was 280-to-153.
赞成票以280票比153票的优势领先。

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5. The jury voted 8-to-4 in favor of acquittal.
陪审团以8比4的投票结果赞成无罪判决。

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