| 词汇 | favor |
| 释义 | favor noun, verb[ T ] uk /ˈfeɪ.vər/ us /ˈfeɪ.vɚ/ US spelling offavour（favour的美式拼写） Backing, supporting & defending adopt advocacy affirmation ally yourself to/with someone argumentation bail out bat bet buoy champion commitment over-favour pander to someone/something prop something up provide provide for someone solidly sustenance underpin wave/show/fly the flagidiom You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Helping and co-operating Liking more Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly Presents and gifts favor | American Dictionaryfavor noun (CdnBrfavour)us/ˈfeɪ·vər/ favornoun (SUPPORT)[ U ] approval or support of someone or something: In applying for this job, Tiffany has a lot in her favor (= to her advantage). The city council voted in favor of (= in support of) the proposed housing development. favornoun (HELPFUL ACT)[ C ] something you do to help someone, often after being asked to: Will you do me a favor and turn the oven on at four o’clock? favornoun (PRESENT)[ C ] a small present given to guests at a party: party favors favor verb[ T ] (CdnBrfavour)us/ˈfeɪ·vər/ to support or prefer one particular possibility: Democrats favored a temporary increase in the state sales tax. Examples of favorfavor In doing so, the agent should retain more preferred beliefs in favor of less preferred ones wherever coherence permits. Because of qualitative differences observed between behaviors apparently shared by the two populations, we favor this second interpretation. Correspondingly, adult subjects do not favor the correct parabolic trajectory over other paths. There are and always will be "schools of thought" that favor one or more interpretive themes over competitors. Most of the research reviewed in the preceding nine categories tends to favor the 2-gen over the 1-gen model. The "ethnographic approach" that the authors favored will not provide sufficient evidence to claim the presence of culture. Such tasks would favor specialization of each hand, with prolonged practice leading to increased differences between the hands. They favored the creation of strong central bureaucratic authorities to ensure that the new agglomerations of private power operated ultimately in the public interest. Timely responses from the state, which favored large producers, never came. Researchers, for instance, can help shape results by anticipating preferred outcomes and subtly providing conditions that favor their development. The height difference is a response to the principle of snterest which favors maximum perceptual differentiation between the stressed vowels. However, surgery directed to the treatment of the failing systemic ventricle should be abandoned in favor of heart transplantation. Within agriculture, persistent labor abundance has favored annual crops, which are relatively labor intensive, and vegetables in particular. As was the case with scientific management, defenders of behavioral psychology made ethical claims, as well as truth claims, in its favor. Given the constant menace of enemies within and without, concealment, deception, and the ability to generate and recognize false beliefs in others would favor survival. See all examples of favor These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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