friendlier

英 [ˈfrɛndlɪə]

美 [ˈfrɛndliər]

adj.  友爱的; 友好的; 善意的; 亲切的; 和蔼可亲的; 朋友似的
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柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 友善的;友好的;好相处的
  If someone isfriendly, they behave in a pleasant, kind way, and like to be with other people.
  1. Godfrey had been friendly to me.
     戈弗雷一度对我很友善。
  2. ...a man with a pleasant, friendly face...
     面容和蔼可亲的男子
  3. Robert has a friendly relationship with his customers.
     罗伯特和他的客户之间关系处得很好。
  4. ...a friendly atmosphere...
     友好的气氛
  5. Your cat isn't very friendly.
     你的猫不太友好。
• ADJ-GRADED 朋友(般)的;要好的
  If you arefriendlywithsomeone, you like each other and enjoy spending time together.
  1. I'm friendly with his mother...
     我和他母亲很要好。
  2. Asmus became friendly with a number of writers and appeared in print as a literary critic.
     阿斯穆斯和许多作家成为了好友，而且还作为一名文学评论家出现在报纸上。
• ADJ-GRADED 盟友的;友邦的
  You can describe another country or their government asfriendlywhen they have good relations with your own country rather than being an enemy.
  1. ...a worsening in relations between the two previously friendly countries.
     这两个曾经友好的国家之间关系的恶化
• N-COUNT 友谊赛
  In sport, afriendlyis a match which is not part of a competition, and is played for entertainment or practice, often without any serious effort to win.
  1. Athletic Bilbao agreed to play a friendly at Real Sociedad.
     毕尔巴鄂竞技队同意在皇家社会队主场打一场友谊赛。
  2. Friendlyis also an adjective.
     
  3. Austria beat Hungary 3-nil in a friendly match at Salzburg on Wednesday.
     在星期三萨尔茨堡的一场友谊赛中奥地利以 3 比 0 击败了匈牙利。

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Do not confusefriendlyandsympathetic. A person who isfriendlyor has afriendlyattitude is kind and pleasant and behaves the way a friend would.…a friendly woman who offered me cakes and tea. …a pleasant, friendly smile.If you have a problem and someone issympatheticor shows asympatheticattitude, they show that they care and would like to help you.My boyfriend was very sympathetic.Note that people sometimes refer to characters in a play or novel who are easy to like assympathetic.There were no sympathetic characters in my book.You usually say that real people are 'nice' or 'likable'.
不要混淆friendly 和 sympathetic。friendly 指人或人的态度友善、令人愉快、如朋友一般：a friendly woman who offered me cakes and tea (请我吃茶点的友善女人)，a pleasant, friendly smile (和蔼可亲的笑容)。用 sympathetic 形容人或人的态度时，表示关心他人的困难并愿意提供帮助：My boyfriend was very sympathetic (我的男朋友富有同情心)。注意，在戏剧或小说中讨人喜欢的人物有时用 sympathetic 来形容：There were no sympathetic characters in my book (我的书中没有讨喜的人物)。形容生活中的人令人喜爱通常用 nice 或 likable。

双语例句

• IAN: I will try to be friendlier.
  我试着变得更友好。
• He has been friendlier lately.
  他近来更友好了。
• This grade makes for environmentally friendlier steelmaking, and China wants cleaner, not just bigger, cities.
  这种品位的铁矿石会让钢铁生产更环保，而中国希望建设更清洁的城市，而不仅仅是规模更大。
• She has grown much friendlier in the past few months.
  她在过去几个月里变得友好了许多。
• This software is much friendlier than the previous version.
  这个软件比先前的版本好用得多。
• One of the main reasons is that people here are friendlier than those in other cities in China.
  其中一个重要原因是这里的人比其他任何城市都更友好。
• But other businesses, including those that work with environmentally friendlier technologies say it could create new industries and jobs.
  而其他行业，包括对环境无害的技术工作可以创新产业和工作。
• By default the behaviour of Zsh is very similar, but by setting a couple of options, we can make it friendlier.
  Zsh缺省的情况与之很类似，但是通过设置几个选项，我们可以使之友好些。
• JDOM uses concrete classes rather than interfaces and incorporates the standard Java collections classes for an API that many Java developers find friendlier than DOM.
  JDOM使用了具体类而不是接口，并且在这种API中集成了标准的Java集合类，许多Java开发人员认为它比DOM更友好。
• Buying your own home, preferably in the North where people are friendlier, is a good idea.
  在人们都很友好的北部买一个你自己的房子，是一个不错的主意。