Favour

n. countenance: good-will: a kind deed: an act of grace or lenity: indulgence: partiality: advantage: a knot of ribbons worn at a wedding or anything worn publicly as a pledge of a woman's favour: (arch.) countenance appearance: a letter or written communication: (Shak.) an attraction or grace.—v.t. to regard with good-will: to be on the side of: to treat indulgently: to afford advantage to: (coll.) to resemble.—adj. Fā′vourable friendly: propitious: conducive to: advantageous.—n. Fā′vourableness.—adv. Fā′vourably.—p.adj. Fā′voured having a certain appearance featured—as in ill-favoured well-favoured.—ns. Fā′vouredness; Fā′vourer; Fā′vourite a person or thing regarded with favour or preference: one unduly loved: a kind of curl of the hair affected by ladies of the 18th century.—adj. esteemed preferred.—n. Fā′vouritism the practice of showing partiality.—adj. Fā′vourless without favour: (Spens.) not favouring.—Favours to come favours still expected; Curry favour (see Curry).

录入:特德

• I thank you for your ingenious paper in favour of the trees. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• But I think their withdrawing is in your favour. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• God was the loving father of all life, as incapable of showing favour as the universal sun. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I got him back for you by means of the girl; and then _she_ begins to favour him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• I thank you for my share of the favour, said Elizabeth; but I do not particularly like your way of getting husbands. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I made my humble acknowledgments to his highness for so great a favour. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• It is not for myself that I pray this favour, said Rebecca; nor is it even for that poor old man. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• A happy circumstance for France, as the like always is for all countries similarly favoured! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• A clear air favoured the kindling of the stars. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But it IS supposed that his Lady, who had none of the family blood in her veins, favoured the bad cause. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• What I did mean to say, was, that I never expected to retain my favoured place in this family, after Fortune shed her beams upon it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I don't exactly know,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'how I come to be favoured with the attendance of the present company, but I don't inquire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• It must be played--in went the yearned-for seasoning--thus favoured, I played it with relish. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Among them, Henry De Roos was the most favoured. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• A man that is ungrateful to his benefactor, in a manner affirms, that he never received any favours from him. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• You have noticed, perhaps, whom he favours with his attentions? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It is the greatest of favours when Miss de Bourgh comes in. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• A group of humble mourners entered the gate: wearing white favours; for the corpse was young. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• It was all right: at present I decidedly preferred these fierce favours to anything more tender. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• My position, Miss Eyre, with my back to the fire, and my face to the room, favours observation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• By favouring this clandestine escape he preserves a shew of consistency to his followers; but mercy is far from his heart. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• But this could be done only by adopting, or, at least, by favouring the tenets of that particular sect. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• You injured me before my marriage, and you have now suspected me of secretly favouring another man for money! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• She blessed the favouring blindness. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• I am not aware of your motive, Miss Wilson, for favouring me with this visit, said the duke. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Even the favouring country, therefore, may still gain by the trade, though less than if there was a free competition. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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