favor

英 ['fe?v?] 美['fev?]

反義詞

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favor 恩惠，好感，偏好

來自拉丁語favere, 好感，來自PIE*ghow, 尊敬，崇拜，詞源同gaze.古羅馬學者西塞羅將該詞詞義弱化為親切，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.

1. Recent opinion polls show that 60 percent favor abortion under certain circumstances.: 最近的民意調查顯示，60%的人贊成在某些情況下可以墮胎。

2. Safire writes hilariously of being banished from presidential favor.: 薩菲爾筆鋒幽默，描寫了自己沒能博取總統好感的事。