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Recent opinion polls show that 60 percent favor abortion under certain circumstances

最近的民意调查显示，60%的人赞成在某些情况下可以堕胎。

The margin in favor was 280-to-153 .

赞成票以280票比153票的优势领先。

He favors extending the school day and school year .

他赞成增加每天的课时并延长学年。

In their own work they may have favored the use of methodology different from mine .

他们在做自己的工作时，也许更喜欢使用和我不一样的一套方法。

They phased out my job in favor of a computer .

他们逐步用一台计算机淘汰了我的工作岗位

Good old Bergen would do him the favor .

好心肠的老伯根会帮他这个忙的。

Since he was color blind , he favored large , showy flowers

因为他是色盲，所以他喜爱大朵艳丽的花。

You 'd think you were the one who did me the favor , and not the other way around .

应该是你帮了我，而不是我帮了你。

Three-fourths of the public say they favor a national referendum on the issue .

四分之三的公众表示希望就这个问题进行全民公决。

Today 's election will skew the results in favor of the northern end of the county .

今天的选举将使结果有利于这个郡的北部地区。

Interestingly , it is not clear which solution the prime minister favors .

耐人寻味的是，现在还不清楚首相支持哪个解决方案。

It is illegal for public officials to solicit gifts or money in exchange for favors

公务员通过索要礼物或钱财作为为他人提供便利的交换是违法的。

He has to just ride this out and hope that it turns in his favor .

他必须经受住此次危机，并且希望结果会对他有利。

Taft grumbled that the law so favored the criminal that trials seemed like a game of chance

塔夫脱抱怨法律如此偏袒罪犯，审判看来像是一场碰运气的游戏。

It was a Christmas when shoppers passed by expensive silks in favor of more practical gifts .

这是一个购物者不理会昂贵的丝绸衣服而热衷于更实用礼物的圣诞节。

' What if they gave a war and nobody came ? ' was one of his generation 's favored aphorisms .

“如果他们宣战却无人应战该怎么办？”是他那一代人钟爱的格言。

There has been a decline in enrollment in liberal arts courses in favor of highly specialized training for high-paying careers , mostly in business .

文科课程的报名人数有所下降，而以商业为主、针对高薪职业的高度专业化培训课程则越来越受欢迎。

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

陪审团以8比4的投票结果赞成无罪判决。

The general opinion is in favor of us .

普遍的舆论对我们有利。

The balance of maritime superiority has tipped in favor of us .

海上优势已经转到我们这边了。

The emperor abdicated in favor of his son .

皇帝自愿退位，由他的儿子登基。

And some banks have begun to render such new services as issuing guarantees and witness in favor of the foreign investments .

一些银行已开设提供经济担保或证明等新业务，以利于引进外资。

One relatively recent technique which has found some favor involves the inclusion of soluble trivalent antimony derivatives in the slurry during mixing .

一种比较近代的、人们好采用的技术是在混合过程中加入可溶性的三价锑衍生物。

I won 't curry favor with him .

我不买他的帐。

There will probably be months of legal tussling , and it is not at all clear which side will prevail in court , nor in the battle for public opinion and legislative favor .

这场法律角逐的可能会耗上好几个月的时间，哪一方在法庭占上风，哪一方又会贏得公众舆论和立法者的青睐都还尚不可知。

Andrew Hacker , Queens College political science professor , thinks that advanced algebra and other higher-level math should be cut from curricula in favor of courses with more routine usefulness , like statistics .

皇后学院政治学教授安德鲁·哈克认为，应去掉高级代数和其他高等数学课程，改而支持设置诸如统计学之类较为常规的实用课程。

Then again , the air of accountability that the camera generates can also work in contractors ' favor .

此外，摄像头所创造的负责任的氛围对他们也有利。

That 's because he plans to ban tipping in favor of paying his servers an actual living wage .

这是因为他打算取消小费，以支付其雇员真正可以维持生计的工资来取代小费。

So the next time you consider eating fallen food , the odds are in your favor that you can eat it without getting sick .

所以下次当你考虑吃摔在地上的食物时，对你有利的可能性是吃抨后你也不会生病。

Others elevate the egg into a fancy art , like the heavily jewel-covered " eggs " that were favored by the Russians starting in the 19th century .

在其他习俗中，人们把鸡蛋上升到华丽的艺术层面，例如，19世纪起，俄罗斯人喜欢用珠宝来装饰鸡蛋。