I'm going as a favour to Ann, not because I want to.

我去是给安一个面子，而不是我想去。

My mother lived all that again, as a favour to me?

我的母亲生活的一切再次，作为一个有利于给我？

As if I had besought them as a favour to bother my life out.

他们把我烦得要死，却反而怨我，好像是我恳求他们来找我麻烦一样。

As a favour to my neighbour, I offered to pick his kids up from school.

我提出接邻居的孩子放学，算是帮他个忙。

I did it as a favour for a friend, but I know now he was wrong to ask if of me.

我只是帮朋友一个忙，但我想他这么做是错的。

But the interesting result comes with those who were asked to participate 'as a favour'.

但是有趣的结果发生在那些“帮个忙”的参与者身上。

As a favour Tony promised to help Claire make herself smarter and her home more elegant.

托尼为让克莱尔高兴，答应帮助她，使她变得漂亮，使她的家变得高雅大方。

To bestow rent reduction as a favour instead of arousing the masses to achieve it by their own action is wrong, and the results will not be solid.

凡不发动群众积极性的恩赐减租，是不正确的，其结果是不巩固的。

Curtis Matthews, a retired postman from North Carolina, was running the bar as a favour to his brother, who had left Louisiana after the attempt on his life the year before.

柯蒂斯·马修斯是一名来自南卡罗来纳的邮递员。 在因约翰·马修斯生命受到威胁而离开路易斯安那州以后，他就帮哥哥经营着酒店。

He abandoned teaching in favour of a career as a musician.

他弃教从事音乐。

The balance of pricing power has shifted in the miners' favour due to the emergence of China as a voracious consumer over the past 10 years.

由于中国在过去10年成为一个胃口庞大的铁矿石消费大国，定价权的天平已经向有利于矿商的一端倾斜。

The third is again the reciprocity principle; by "moving down", you are seen as having done him a favour!

第三仍然是互惠原理，通过“降级”，看起来你是在帮他的忙。

As the men get richer, the wives are either tossed out in favour of a new model or become engaged in 23 inane, busy-making activities.

随着男主人变得越来越富有，他们的妻子若不是由于丈夫迷上某个新模特而被晾在一旁，就是忙着参加没事找事的无聊活动。

The cross platform architecture support of MeeGo, as well as its potential to develop as a Linux-, open source platform, can tip the balance in its favour.

这个由MeeGo支撑的跨平台的架构，正如开源的linux一样具有开发潜力，能够影响对它有利的平衡。

"If females have a biological predisposition to favour colours such as pink, this preference should be evident regardless of experience of the acquisition of gender concepts," they said.

她们说：“如果女性是生理上倾向于喜欢粉红这类颜色，那么不管性别概念获取的经验如何，这种偏好都应该是明显的。”

The odds favour a continuation of decent job growth, though not as briskly as in October.

在未来有很大几率出现持续的就业增长，即使不会像十月份那样迅速。

In California, say, they tend, as renters rather than homeowners, to be against Proposition 13, a law that caps property taxes, and instead to favour taxes that pay for better education.

比如说，在加州，作为房屋的租客而非所有者，他们倾向于反对第13号提案(一项限定财产税上限的法令)，而支持旨在改善教育的各项税收。

If nobody can find more convincing arguments in favour of the Lisbon treaty, the EU as a whole may yet find itself whistling in the dark.

如果没有人能够为理斯本条约找到更有说服力的理由，那么到头来，恐怕是欧盟自己在吹着口哨走夜路吧。

Once the electorate shifts in favour of a candidate, as it seems to have done over the last few weeks, it seldom moves again, they said.

他们说，一旦全体选民转而支持一个候选人，就好象前几周发生的那样，那么他们就很少再变了。

As I said, a betting man would not favour the chances of a rapid breakthrough after the Washington summit.

正如我说过的，任何赌徒都不会认为华盛顿峰会之后双方会取得迅速的进展。

They argue that with the decline of the financial sector as a money-spinner the British economy needs rebalancing—naturally, in favour of their own world-beating industry.

他们说，随着金融业这棵摇钱树的衰退，英国经济需要重定平衡——重心理所应当该向本国世界级行业倾斜。

As I said, a betting man would not favour the chances of a rapid breakthrough after the Washington summit. The Hamas conundrum is a huge obstacle.

像我上文提到的那样，一个赌徒不会在华盛顿峰会后将赌注下具有突破性进展的和平上，哈马斯难题是一个巨大的障碍。

Most voters tell pollsters they favour a balanced approach to the deficit, meaning tax increases as well as spending cuts, with a bigger share of the taxes coming from the rich.

大多数选民在接受民意调查时都提出他们倾向于以平衡的方式来处理赤字，这意味着同时加税和开支削减，以及从富人那里获取更大的税收。

As a result, the Committee has actively encouraged a number of countries to seek support from WHO and to adopt or strengthen activities in favour of child rights in their country.

因此，委员会也积极鼓励许多国家从世卫组织寻求支持，并且采纳或加强在它们的国家支持儿童权利的活动。

Miss Tox made a graceful bend as she spoke, in favour of Mr Dombey, which that gentleman graciously acknowledged.

托克斯小姐说时向董贝先生优雅地鞠了一个躬，董贝先生和蔼亲切地还了礼。

Republicans, who generally favour a smaller stimulus with more tax cuts, decry Mr Obama's bill as wasteful.

支持一个更小的支出更多减税的共和党人们则指责奥巴马的计划过于浪费。

This may favour a group such as Bottega Veneta which produces handbags without a logo but with a distinctive stitching pattern.

包缇嘉·巴塞罗生产的手袋并不带商标，但却有与众不同的缝纫特征——这类的集团或许能从这种转变中受益。

As a technician, I'm inclined to ignore deadlines in favour of a more elegant technical solution.

作为一个技术人员，我倾向于在为利于产生一个更精致的技术性解决方案而忽略截止期限。