- vt. 宁可；较喜欢；提出（控告）
prefer的英文翻译是什么意思，词典释义与在线翻译：
详尽释义
- 喜欢...（而不喜欢...），更喜欢，选择某事物（而不选择他事物）
- 宁可...（而不...），宁愿（选择），愿意
- 比起...来还是...好，认为…胜过
- 【律】提起，提出，对…起诉
- 任命
- 录用
- 推荐
- 介绍
- 【律】给与优先获得偿付权，给（债权人）优先权
- 建议
- 申请
- <古>提升，提拔
双解释义
- vt. 更喜欢 choose one thing or action rather than another; like better
- vt. 提出; 建议 put forward for official consideration or action according to law
英英释义
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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的用法和样例：
例句
- I would prefer to stay home rather than go out on such a rainy day.
在这种雨天，我宁可待在家也不出门。 - All this gracious living is not for me；I prefer the simple life.
这种优裕的生活对我不合适；我还是更喜欢简朴的生活。 - Which one do you prefer, an apple or an orange?
你想要哪个，苹果还是橘子？ - Police preferred charges against him for theft.
警方指控他有偷窃行为。
常用短语
- prefer a charge〔charges〕 against
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控告; 告发 put forward a charge against; submit
- prefer...rather than
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喜欢…胜过… like... better than
prefer sth rather than sthI prefer tea rather than coffee.
我喜欢茶甚于喜欢咖啡。
What shall we have to drink?...red wine?...white wine?—I should prefer red wine rather than white wine.
我们喝点什么酒?…红葡萄酒?…白葡萄酒?——我愿喝红葡萄酒,不愿喝白葡萄酒。
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,他愿在花园中做活而不愿闲坐着。
She preferred to keep her troubles to herself rather than to allow them to trouble others.
她宁愿不让别人知道自己的困难,也不肯让自己的困难去麻烦别人。
They preferred to stay at home rather than go to the movies.
他们宁可呆在家里,也不愿去看电影。
They preferred to die rather than surrender to the enemy.
他们宁死也不愿向敌人投降。
I would prefer to spend the weekend at home rather than driving all the way to your mother's.
我觉得与其开车跑那么远到你母亲那里去度周末,还不如呆在家里。
He preferred rather to take the whole blame himself than to allow it to fall on the innocent.
他宁肯自己承担全部责任,也不愿把责任推在清白的人身上。
He would prefer to meet me downstairs rather than upstairs.
他宁愿在楼下见我,而不愿在楼上。
- prefer to (v.+prep.)
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提升某人为 promote sb to a position
prefer sth to sthI prefer red to blue.
我更喜欢红色而不喜欢蓝色。
Most Chinese preferred tea to coffee.
茶和咖啡相比大多数中国人更喜欢喝茶。
I much prefer dogs to cats.
我喜欢狗甚于喜欢猫。
I prefer country life to town life.
我更喜欢乡村生活而不喜欢城市生活。
prefer v-ing to v-ingI prefer skiing to skating.
我喜欢滑雪胜于滑冰。
He was very diligent; even on holidays, he preferred doing something to doing nothing.
他很勤劳,即使在假日里,他也宁愿做点什么事,而不愿闲着。
She is very traditional; she prefers dressing formally to wearing sport clothes.
她很守旧,喜欢穿正式的服装,而不喜欢穿运动装。
prefer sb to sthHe was preferred to captain.
他被提升为队长。
词汇搭配
- prefer buns 更喜欢吃馒头
- prefer classic music 更喜欢古典音乐
- prefer country life 更喜欢乡村的生活
- prefer new works 更喜欢新作品
- prefer popular music 更喜欢流行音乐
- prefer rice 更喜欢吃米饭
- prefer some requests 提出要求
- prefer tea 更喜欢喝茶
- prefer the general approach 更喜欢一般性的处理方法
- prefer vegetable 宁愿吃蔬菜
- prefer winter weather 更喜欢冬天的天气
- prefer cautiously 小心翼翼地提出
- prefer conscientiously 诚心诚意地提出
- prefer emotionally 激动地提出
- prefer instinctively 本能地提出
- prefer manfully 果断地提出
- prefer openly 公开提出
- prefer overwhelmingly 极其喜欢
- prefer particularly 尤其提出
- prefer personally 个人宁愿
- prefer politically 政治上宁可
- prefer reasonably 明智地提出
- prefer remarkably 不平常地提出
- prefer ruthlessly 无情地提出
- prefer savagely 野蛮地提出
- prefer scathingly 不留情地提出
- prefer selectively 有选择地提出
- prefer sharply 尖刻地提出
- prefer ultimately 最后提出
- 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 最喜欢的
- prefer charges against sb 对某人提出控告
- prefer to 比起…更喜欢…
- prefer fish to meat 喜欢吃鱼而不喜欢吃肉
- prefer to singing 比较喜欢唱歌
- prefer death to surrender 宁死不屈
经典引文
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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
