In fact , there was intermittent evidence of a gender gap before 1980 : it favored the republicans .

事实上，在1980年之前，有间歇性的证据表明女选民更赞成共和党。

Before that , living standards were already being eroded by stagnating wages and tax and economic policies that favored the wealthy .

在此之前，人民的生活已经被停滞不前的工资、税收以及青睐富人的经济政策消磨殆尽。

A different way of breaking down investment to avoid those problems , favored by the world bank and a few other private-sector economists , is by business sector rather than type of ownership .

世界银行（worldbank）和其他一些私营经济专家青睐的一个避免这些问题的投资分类办法是按照企业类型而非所有制类型进行划分。

Because even half a million years ago , nine out of 10 european humans favored their right hands .

因为远在五十万年前，10个欧洲人中就有9个更喜欢使用右手。

And 46 % of americans still favored expanded offshore drilling .

而且现在仍然有46%的美国人支持海上钻探。