favor

詳細解釋：

fa.vor

n.（名詞）
A gracious, friendly, or obliging act that is freely granted:
親切：自然流露出的仁慈的、友愛的、恩惠的行為：
例句：
do someone a favor.
幫助人

Friendly or favorable regard; approval or support:
好感，喜愛：友好的或喜愛的看法；讚揚或支持：
例句：
won the favor of the monarch; looked with favor on the plan.
贏得君王的好感；贊同這個計畫

A state of being held in such regard:
喜愛：被喜歡的狀態：
例句：
a style currently in favor.
現今流行的款式

Unfair partiality; favoritism.
偏愛：不公正地喜歡；偏袒

A privilege or concession.
特權，特許
favors Sexual privileges, especially as granted by a woman.
favors 以身相許：性權利，尤指女人給男人的

Something given as a token of love, affection, or remembrance.
信物，紀念品：作為愛、喜愛或紀念的一種標誌
A small decorative gift given to each guest at a party.
禮物：晚會上送給客人的裝飾小禮品
Advantage; benefit:
好處；有利：
例句：
sailed under favor of cloudless skies.
在天空無雲的幫助下飛行

Behalf; interest:
利益；益處：
例句：
an error in our favor.
對我方有益的錯誤

Obsolete A communication, especially a letter.
【廢語】 通訊，尤指信函
Archaic
【古語】
Aspect or appearance.
模樣，面貌
Countenance; face.
容貌；臉部
Obsolete A facial feature.
【廢語】 面貌特徵
v.（動詞）
fa.vored,fa.vor.ing,fa.vors
v.tr.（及物動詞）
To perform a kindness or service for; oblige.See Synonyms at oblige
給予：對…仁慈，為…服務；幫忙參見 oblige
To treat or regard with friendship, approval, or support.
關照，贊成：友好、贊同、支持地對待
To be partial to; indulge a liking for:
偏愛：偏袒；放縱對…的喜愛：
例句：
favors bright colors.
偏愛亮色

To be or tend to be in support of.
贊成：支持，趨向於支持
To make easier or more possible; facilitate:
協助，便於：使更容易或更有可能；協助：
例句：
Darkness favored their escape.
黑暗掩護他們逃跑

To treat with care; be gentle with:
關懷：關心地對待；對…溫柔：
例句：
favored my wounded leg.
關注我受傷的腿

Chiefly Southern U.S. To resemble in appearance:
【多用於美國南部】 面貌相似：
例句：
She favors her father.
她酷似乃父

v.intr.Chiefly Southern U.S. （不及物動詞）【多用於美國南部】
To resemble another in appearance:
相象：與另一個在面貌上相仿：
例句：
She and her father favor.
她和她父親容貌相象

<習慣用語>in favor of
In support of; approving:
支持；贊同：
例句：
We are in favor of her promotion to president.
我們贊成她升為總裁

To the advantage of:
有利於：
例句：
The court decided in favor of the plaintiff.
法庭的判決有利於原告

Inscribed or made out to the benefit of:
以…為受款人：以…為受款人而寫上或題上：
例句：
a check in favor of a charity.
以一個慈善機構為受款人的票據

來源：
Middle English
中古英文
from Old French
源自 古法文
from Latin
源自 拉丁語
from favôre [to be favorable]
源自 favôre [成為有利的]

【引伸】
fa.vorer
n.（名詞）
fa.voringly
adv.（副詞）
<注釋>When a Southernerfavors a relative, he or she is not giving that person special privileges;rather, the Southerner looks like that relative.Favor can be either transitive— She favors her father — or intransitive with a compound subject: She and her father favor. This sense offavor goes back to early modern English: .This young lord Chamont/Favors my mother. (Ben Jonson).The verb derives from the nounfavor, which was used from the 5th to the 9th century to mean .appearance, aspect; the countenance, face.: .What makes thy favor like the bloodless head/Fall`n on the blockô. (Tennyson).This sense of the noun is now archaic,but the verb thrives in the English of the Southern United States.
當一個南方人favors 一個親屬， 他（或她）不是給這個人特權；而是這個南方人長得像那個親屬。Favor 可以是及物的—— 她像她父親—— 或不及物的，與複合主語連用： 她和她父親相象。 Favor 的這種含義可以上溯到早期的現代英文： .這個年輕的貴族像我媽媽. （本·傑森）。這動詞來源於名詞favor， 在5世紀到9世紀被作為.外貌，樣子；面貌，臉部.的意思用： .什麼使你的臉毫無血色，腦袋耷拉下來ô. （坦尼森）。名詞的這一用法現在已經陳舊了，但動詞仍在美國南部英文中流行