| 单词 | favorite |
| 释义 | favorite (once / 161 pages) 1adjn 2n Your favorite is what you like best. Your room is probably painted your favorite color, and the folders you carry to school are probably that color too. In a competition, the favorite is the one considered likely to win. If you bet on the favorite in a horse race, you're betting on the horse lots of other people think will win. The opposite of the favorite is the dark horse, or the underdog, or the long shot. You may have a favorite recipe, a favorite Web site, a favorite pastime, a favorite anything. WORD FAMILYfavorite: favorites, favoritism+/favoritism: favoritisms USAGE EXAMPLESThere’s no obvious, runaway favorite, so this means we all yell at each other about it for several weeks. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) “Moonstruck” is my favorite movie, and Lincoln Center my favorite place. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Now that we’re in the thick of a new awards season, revisit this critical favorite that won six Oscars. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1adj preferred above all others and treated with partiality Syn best-loved, favored, favourite, pet, preferent, preferred loved held dear 2adj appealing to the general public a favorite tourist attraction Syn favourite popular regarded with great favor, approval, or affection especially by the general public 3n something regarded with special favor or liking that book is one of my favorites Syn|Hyper favourite choice, pick, selection the person or thing chosen or selected 4n a special loved one 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper darling, dearie, deary, ducky, favourite, pet chosen one who is the object of choice; who is given preference macushla(an Irish term of address expressing affection) darling mollycoddlea pampered darling; an effeminate man teacher's petthe teacher's favorite student lover a person who loves someone or is loved by someone n a competitor thought likely to win Syn|Hyper favourite, front-runner challenger, competition, competitor, contender, rival the contestant you hope to defeat |
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