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

• This software is much friendlier than the previous version.
  这个软件比先前的版本好用得多。
• 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。
• It was originally designed for batch processing, but after using it to publish several Web sites and receiving plenty of feedback from users, I realized that it needed a friendlier interface.
  设计它的初衷是将它用于批处理，但是用它发布了几个网站并收到了来自用户的众多反馈之后，我意识到它需要一个更友好的界面。
• And if you're smiling, other people will perceive you as being friendlier and more approachable.
  在你微笑的时候，别人也感到你更加友好、更亲切。
• Before he became the big banana John was a much friendlier and most modest person.
  约翰成为大人物之前可比现在要友善得多，当时他是个极谦逊的人。
• 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。
• Several things have happened since those friendlier days.
  自那时的友好年代之后，发生了一些事。
• 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。
• 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。
• Americans, stereotypically, are friendlier, smile more, and are more open.
  从模式化上来说，美国人更亲切、更喜欢微笑，也更加开放。