- vt. 寧可；較喜歡；提出（控告）
prefer的英文翻譯是什麼意思，詞典釋義與在線翻譯：
詳盡釋義
- 喜歡...（而不喜歡...），更喜歡，選擇某事物（而不選擇他事物）
- 寧可...（而不...），寧願（選擇），願意
- 比起...來還是...好，認為…勝過
- 【律】提起，提出，對…起訴
- 任命
- 錄用
- 推薦
- 介紹
- 【律】給與優先獲得償付權，給（債權人）優先權
- 建議
- 申請
- <古>提升，提拔
雙解釋義
- vt. 更喜歡 choose one thing or action rather than another; like better
- vt. 提出; 建議 put forward for official consideration or action according to law
英英釋義
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like better; value more highly;
"Some people prefer camping to staying in hotels"
"We prefer sleeping outside"
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select as an alternative over another;
"I always choose the fish over the meat courses in this restaurant"
"She opted for the job on the East coast"
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promote over another;
"he favors his second daughter"
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give preference to one creditor over another
prefer的用法和樣例：
例句
- I would prefer to stay home rather than go out on such a rainy day.
在這種雨天，我寧可待在家也不出門。 - All this gracious living is not for me；I prefer the simple life.
這種優裕的生活對我不合適；我還是更喜歡簡樸的生活。 - Which one do you prefer, an apple or an orange?
你想要哪個，蘋果還是橘子？ - Police preferred charges against him for theft.
警方指控他有偷竊行為。
常用短語
- prefer a charge〔charges〕 against
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控告; 告發 put forward a charge against; submit
- prefer...rather than
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喜歡…勝過… like... better than
prefer sth rather than sthI prefer tea rather than coffee.
我喜歡茶甚於喜歡咖啡。
What shall we have to drink?...red wine?...white wine?—I should prefer red wine rather than white wine.
我們喝點什麼酒?…紅葡萄酒?…白葡萄酒?——我願喝紅葡萄酒,不願喝白葡萄酒。
prefer to-v rather thanThe old man was still in good health. He preferred to work in the garden rather than to sit idly.
那位老人仍然很健康,他願在花園中做活而不願閑坐著。
She preferred to keep her troubles to herself rather than to allow them to trouble others.
她寧願不讓別人知道自己的困難,也不肯讓自己的困難去麻煩別人。
They preferred to stay at home rather than go to the movies.
他們寧可呆在家裡,也不願去看電影。
They preferred to die rather than surrender to the enemy.
他們寧死也不願向敵人投降。
I would prefer to spend the weekend at home rather than driving all the way to your mother's.
我覺得與其開車跑那麼遠到你母親那裡去度周末,還不如呆在家裡。
He preferred rather to take the whole blame himself than to allow it to fall on the innocent.
他寧肯自己承擔全部責任,也不願把責任推在清白的人身上。
He would prefer to meet me downstairs rather than upstairs.
他寧願在樓下見我,而不願在樓上。
- prefer to (v.+prep.)
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提升某人為 promote sb to a position
prefer sth to sthI prefer red to blue.
我更喜歡紅色而不喜歡藍色。
Most Chinese preferred tea to coffee.
茶和咖啡相比大多數中國人更喜歡喝茶。
I much prefer dogs to cats.
我喜歡狗甚於喜歡貓。
I prefer country life to town life.
我更喜歡鄉村生活而不喜歡城市生活。
prefer v-ing to v-ingI prefer skiing to skating.
我喜歡滑雪勝於滑冰。
He was very diligent; even on holidays, he preferred doing something to doing nothing.
他很勤勞,即使在假日里,他也寧願做點什麼事,而不願閑著。
She is very traditional; she prefers dressing formally to wearing sport clothes.
她很守舊,喜歡穿正式的服裝,而不喜歡穿運動裝。
prefer sb to sthHe was preferred to captain.
他被提升為隊長。
辭彙搭配
- prefer buns 更喜歡吃饅頭
- prefer classic music 更喜歡古典音樂
- prefer country life 更喜歡鄉村的生活
- prefer new works 更喜歡新作品
- prefer popular music 更喜歡流行音樂
- prefer rice 更喜歡吃米飯
- prefer some requests 提出要求
- prefer tea 更喜歡喝茶
- prefer the general approach 更喜歡一般性的處理方法
- prefer vegetable 寧願吃蔬菜
- prefer winter weather 更喜歡冬天的天氣
- prefer cautiously 小心翼翼地提出
- prefer conscientiously 誠心誠意地提出
- prefer emotionally 激動地提出
- prefer instinctively 本能地提出
- prefer manfully 果斷地提出
- prefer openly 公開提出
- prefer overwhelmingly 極其喜歡
- prefer particularly 尤其提出
- prefer personally 個人寧願
- prefer politically 政治上寧可
- prefer reasonably 明智地提出
- prefer remarkably 不平常地提出
- prefer ruthlessly 無情地提出
- prefer savagely 野蠻地提出
- prefer scathingly 不留情地提出
- prefer selectively 有選擇地提出
- prefer sharply 尖刻地提出
- prefer ultimately 最後提出
- prefer unaccountably 莫名其妙地提出
- prefer unexpectedly 意外地提出
- prefer unthinkingly 不假思索地提出
- prefer above all others 最喜歡的
- prefer charges against sb 對某人提出控告
- prefer to 比起…更喜歡…
- prefer fish to meat 喜歡吃魚而不喜歡吃肉
- prefer to singing 比較喜歡唱歌
- prefer death to surrender 寧死不屈
經典引文
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He was preferred Chief Baron of the Exchequer.
出自： T. Fuller -
Ferdinand promised..to prefer no foreigners to municipal offices.
出自： W. H. Prescott
