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1·She said nothing, preferring instead to save her comments till later.

她什么也没说，而是想稍后再作评论。《牛津词典》

2·Although rich, Xu avoided comfortable travel, preferring to go almost everywhere on foot.

尽管很富有，徐却避免舒适的旅行，宁愿徒步去几乎所有的地方。

3·We sat at the dinner table in silence, preferring that to speaking in a difficult language.

我们坐在餐桌旁沉默不语，宁愿那样也不愿使用一种难懂的语言交流。

4·She exerted an iron hold on the culture, preferring Beethoven's Sixth Symphony to his triumphalist Fifth, disliking Respighi's Pines of Rome.

她强硬要控制文化方面的事业，喜欢贝多芬的第六交响曲，不喜欢雷斯庇基的《罗马的松树》。

5·Preferring a smartphone to a child.

更希望给孩子一台智能手机。

6·Preferring unidirectional to bidirectional.

单向关联优先于双向关联。

7·I freely admit to preferring this be the case.

我坦率地承认宁愿如此。

8·THE British are notorious for preferring pets to people.

英国人以喜爱宠物甚于人而声名狼藉。

9·Another reason for preferring Ruby is the ability to create DSLs.

另一个偏爱Ruby的原因是可以创建DSL。

10·I can't recall hearing a positive reaction to a white guy preferring Asian women.

我记不得听到过哪怕一次对白人男性偏爱亚裔女性的积极反应。

偏爱

1·I can't recall hearing a positive reaction to a white guy preferring Asian women.

我记不得听到过哪怕一次对白人男性偏爱亚裔女性的积极反应。

2·It was this latter effect, perhaps, that caused New Yorkers to avoid drinking water and earned them a reputation for preferring other sorts of beverages.

也许正是因为这后一种原因，纽约人避免喝水，从而获得了偏爱其它饮料的名声。

3·But others have suggested that taller men simply have not been attracted to athletics, preferring to devote themselves to more lucrative10 sports such as basketball or American football.

但是，已有另外的科学家提出说，身材高大的人是不会对田径运动感兴趣的，他们都偏爱投身于更为有利可图的运动，比如篮球或美式足球。

4·Thus the organisation hasn't yet worked out the predictive 'measures that mean something', and will probably never work on those, preferring historical financial data.

因此组织没有制定带有预见性的指标而更偏爱历史数据。

5·Recipes vary around the world, with some preferring to horseradish and Tabasco.

尽管世界各地的配方都不相同，但普遍偏爱添加山葵调味剂和塔巴斯哥辣酱油。

(1)would prefer宁愿；更喜欢

(1)prefer to do宁可做某事；更喜欢做某事

(1)prefer doing喜欢做某事