favour的中文翻譯是什麼意思

N-UNCOUNT贊同;支援;喜愛

If you regard something or someone with favour, you like or support them.

• It remains to be seen if the show will still find favour with a 1990s audience...

  這個節目是否能繼續贏得 90 後觀眾的喜愛，還要拭目以待。

• No one would look with favour on the continuing military rule...

  沒有人會贊成繼續軍政府統治。

N-COUNT恩惠;幫忙

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

• I've come to ask you to do me a favour...

  我來這兒是想請你幫個忙。

• These are gestures of genuine friendship with no favours expected in return.

  這是友誼的真正表現，不期待任何回報。

N-PLURAL與人發生性關係

If you say that one person gives or sells their favours to another, you mean that they have sex.

• In her extreme youth, Maria had sold her sexual favours for money.

  瑪麗亞在非常年輕的時候，曾靠賣淫來賺錢。

VERB更喜愛;寧願;傾向於

If you favour something, you prefer it to the other choices available.

• The French say they favour a transition to democracy...

  法國人說他們傾向於向民主過渡。

• He favours bringing the UN into touch with 'modern realities'.

  他傾向於讓聯合國接觸“當代現實”。

VERB偏愛;偏袒;寵愛

If you favour someone, you treat them better or in a kinder way than you treat other people.

• The Government came under fire yesterday for favouring elitist arts groups in the South-east...

  昨天，政府因為偏袒東南部的一些精英藝術群體而遭到抨擊。

• Another possibility is that parents favour chicks that are strong.

  另一種可能性是親鳥會偏愛強壯的雛鳥。

PHRASE支援;贊成

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

• I wouldn't be in favour of income tax cuts...

  我不會支援削減所得稅。

• Yet this is a Government which proclaims that it is all in favour of openness...

  但這卻是個宣稱全力支援開放的政府。

PHRASE認為…正確;認為…有理

If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.

• If the commission rules in Mr Welch's favour the case will go to the European Court of Human Rights.

  如果委員會裁定韋爾奇有理，這個案件將送交歐洲人權法庭。

PHRASE對…有利

If something is in your favour, it helps you or gives you an advantage.

• The protection that farmers have enjoyed amounts to a bias in favour of the countryside...

  農民所受的保護幾乎變成了對鄉村的偏袒。

• Firms are trying to shift the balance of power in the labour market back in their favour.

  各公司正在試圖讓勞動力市場的均勢向有利於自己的方向傾斜。

PHRASE(捨棄某物)寧願選擇;選…(而不選…)

If one thing is rejected in favour of another, the second thing is done or chosen instead of the first.

• The policy was rejected in favour of a more cautious approach.

  這項政策未被採納，取而代之的是一項較為謹慎的策略。

PHRASE受寵／失寵;得勢／失勢

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.