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

• I suppose it's an attempt to make the government seem friendlier.
  我猜这是政府亲民的一种尝试。
• 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。
• This new, friendlier approach had some useful consequences.
  这崭新而友好的接触产生了一些有用的结果。
• If you were friendlier, people would like you better.
  如果你对人友善些，人们也会喜欢你的。
• By using first names only, we felt friendlier towards each other.
  通过直呼其名，我们互相之间更加亲切友好。
• And where there is not much point in busybody neighbours twitching the curtains make for friendlier places to live.
  好管闲事的邻居隔帘打探已无多大意义，这一点帮助营造了更加友好的居住氛围。
• I thought he would be friendlier since we met yesterday.
  我以为我们昨天见过面，他会比较友善。
• Don't be ridiculous! Yours is much friendlier than mine.
  别傻了！你的狗比我的狗友善得多。
• Be friendly to those who enjoy your work and friendlier to those who attack it.
  对喜爱你的设计的人友好，对攻击你的设计的人更友好。
• Another company might provide better hours, more benefits, even a friendlier work environment.
  另一个公司也许可以给你安排更好的工作时间，提供给你更好的薪资，甚至是更友好地工作环境。