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

• The goal is to provide a friendlier experience for first-timers and experienced users.
  我们的目标是为新手和有经验的用户都提供更加友好的体验。
• 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。
• 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。
• Alternatively, the same tools are available as ant scripts but we have chosen the Eclipse way because it is friendlier.
  另外，相同的工具也可作为ant脚本获得，但我们选择LegStar的Eclipse插件，因为它更友好。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Incentives exist on both sides, however, to try to keep the friendlier relations on track.
  然而，双方都有保持更友好关系的动机。