| 正面 | 2517.favor 英 ['feɪvə]美 ['fevɚ]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： buck：不可。认为你的观点是不可以的——反对。vt. 赞成；喜欢；像；赐予；证实n. 喜爱；欢心；好感 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。 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。 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." |