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FAVOURITE

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favourite I. adjectiv

favorit, preferat; iubit;

(amer.) favourite son politician cu popularitate numai în statul său.

favourite II. substantiv

favorit;

to be a favourite with smb. a se bucura de favoarea cuiva;

to be a great favourite a fi foarte popular, a fi iubit.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I fancy I am rather a favourite; he took notice of my gown.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

“What did he mean by talking about favourites, then?” said Steerforth at length.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Mrs Croft always met her with a kindness which gave her the pleasure of fancying herself a favourite, and on the present occasion, receiving her in that house, there was particular attention.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

“It was my mother's favourite walk.”

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

“That play must be a favourite with you,” said he; “you read as if you knew it well.”

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

“Wickham, perhaps, is my favourite; but I think I shall like your husband quite as well as Jane's.”

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

It was only necessary to mention any favourite amusement to engage her to talk.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

“Why, what is that? Silver Blaze favourite?”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But how far this might be applicable to our courts, and favourites, and ministers of state, my master said I could best determine.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

“You're a good boy in your line, Jim, but I don't think you and me'll go to sea again. You're too much of the born favourite for me. Is that you, John Silver? What brings you here, man?”

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

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