favor

• vt. 讚成；喜歡；像；賜予；證實
• n. 喜愛；歡心；好感

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%的人讚成在某些情況下可以墮胎。

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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。

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3. Good old Bergen would do him the favor.

好心腸的老伯根會幫他這個忙的。

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4. The margin in favor was 280-to-153.

讚成票以280票比153票的優勢領先。

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5. The jury voted 8-to-4 in favor of acquittal.

陪審團以8比4的投票結果讚成無罪判決。

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