"I want you to do me a favour-- a very great favour; that is if it will not put you out of the way."
"What do you mean?" asked Frere roughly, pursing his lips with a sullen air. "Favour! What do you call this?" striking the sofa on which he sat. "Isn't this a favour? What do you call your precious house and all that's in it? Isn't that a favour? What do you mean?"
To his utter astonishment the woman replied by shedding tears. For some time he regarded her in silence, as if unwilling to be softened by such shallow device, but eventually felt constrained to say something.英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
It must be now or never, Mrs. Thompson felt; and as regarded M. Lacordaire, he probably entertained some idea of the same kind. Thompson's inclinations, though they had never been very strong in the matter, were certainly in favour of the "now." M. Lacordaire's inclinations were stronger. He had fully and firmly made up his mind in favour of matrimony; but then he was not so absolutely in favour of the "now." Mrs. Thompson's mind, if one could have read it, would have shown a great objection to shilly- shallying, as she was accustomed to call it. But M.英文原著 · 《The Chateau of Prince Polignac》
That looks like mad; but I won't lose my speech. My dearest Jenny--your name is Jenny, I think?-- My dearest Jenny, though I have the highest esteem for the sweet favours you have just now granted me-- Gor, that's a fib, though; but Jessamy says it is not wicked to tell lies to the women. [Aside.] I say, though I have the highest esteem for the favours you have just now granted me, yet you will consider that, as soon as the dissolvable knot is tied, they will no longer be favours, but only matters of duty and mat- ters of course.英文原著 · 《The Contrast》
...I write now to ask a favour of you, a very great favour from one so hard worked as you are. It is to read thirty pages of MS., excellently copied out and give me, not lengthened criticism, but your opinion whether I may venture to publish it. You may keep the MS. for a month or two. I would not ask this favour, but I REALLY know no one else whose judgment on the subject would be final with me.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-2》
"He was ever base," she said--"as he was at first, so he is now. 'Tis thy favourite, Anne," lightly, and she delicately spurned the blackened tinder with her foot--"thy favourite, John Oxon."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
My mother she bid me cut him some bread: I cut him some bread, And I threw't at his head. My mother she bid me light him to bed. I lit him to bed, And wished he were dead. My mother she bid me tell him to rise: I told him to rise, And he opened his eyes. My mother she bid me take him to church: I took him to church, And left him in the lurch; With his grey beard newly-shaven. Ballad: WHY SHOULD WE QUARREL FOR RICHES. [A VERSION of this very favourite song may be found in Ramsay's TEA-TABLE MISCELLANY. Though a sailor's song, we question whether it is not a greater favourite with landsmen.英文原著 · 《Ancient Poems》
But his favourite place was on the bench on the parquet of the old Boston Garden when victory was assured.美剧 · 《Billions》