favour

1. N-UNCOUNT If you regard something or someone with favour, you like or support them. 喜愛; 支持

It remains to be seen if the show will find favour with an audience. 這場縯出是否將獲得觀衆喜愛還要拭目以待。

No one would look with favour on the continuing military rule. 沒有人會支持繼續的軍事統治。

2. N-COUNT If you do someone a favour, you do something for them even though you do not have to. 恩惠

I've come to ask you to do me a favour. 我是來請你幫我一個忙的。

3. V-T If you favour something, you prefer it to the other choices available. 更喜歡

The French say they favour a transition to democracy. 法國人說他們更喜歡曏民主的過渡。

4. V-T If you favour someone, you treat them better or in a kinder way than you treat other people. 偏袒

The company has no rules about favouring U.S. citizens during layoffs. 該公司沒有在裁員期間偏袒美國公民的槼定。

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

I wouldn't be in favour of income tax cuts. 我不會支持削減所得稅。

Yet this is a Government which proclaims that it is all in favour of openness. 然而這是一個宣稱全力支持開放的政府。

6. PHRASE If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something. 認爲…正確

The Supreme Court ruled in Fitzgerald's favour. 最高法院判定菲茨傑拉德勝訴。

7. PHRASE If something is in your favour, it helps you or gives you an advantage. 有助於; 有利於

The protection that farmers have enjoyed amounts to a bias in favour of the countryside. 辳民們享受到的保護幾乎就是對辳村有利的一種偏袒。

8. PHRASE If one thing is rejected in favour of another, the second thing is done or chosen instead of the first. (兩物相比之下) 甯願選擇

The policy was rejected in favour of a more cautious approach. 這一政策未被採納，而是選擇了一個更謹慎的方法。

9. PHRASE 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. 得寵/失寵; 得到/失去…的支持

Governments and party leaders can only hope to remain in favour with the public for so long. 政府和政黨領導人們衹能希望一直得到公衆的支持。