favoured

She favoured a carrot-and-stick approach to teaching.

她赞成在教学中奖惩并用。

The December weather favoured our voyage.

12月的天气使我们的航行顺利。

Textile workers favoured protection.

纺织工人拥护贸易保护施。

The laws are designed to protect endangered species like badgers and otters, whose fur used to be favoured by sporran makers.

项法律是为了保护獾与水獭等濒危物，过去毛皮袋的制作者喜欢使用牠们的毛皮。

While some of this can be explained by society—in countries like China baby boys are favoured and many unborn girls are electively aborted—there are natural processes at work.

有些时候况可用社会来解释—在中国等国家，男孩比较受欢迎，还未出生的女孩会被选择性地堕胎—过自然过程也有影响。