prefer的详尽意思是什么

1. 喜欢...（而不喜欢...），更喜欢，选择某事物（而不选择他事物）
2. 宁可...（而不...），宁愿（选择），愿意
3. 比起...来还是...好，认为…胜过
4. 【律】提起，提出，对…起诉
5. 任命
6. 录用
7. 推荐
8. 介绍
9. 【律】给与优先获得偿付权，给（债权人）优先权
10. 建议
11. 申请
12. 提升，提拔

1. vt. 更喜欢 choose one thing or action rather than another; like better
2. vt. 提出; 建议 put forward for official consideration or action according to law

1.更喜欢；偏好
If youprefer someone or something, you like that person or thing better than another, and so you are more likely to choose them if there is a choice.

e.g. Does heprefer a particular sort of music?...
他有特别喜欢的音乐吗？
e.g. I became a teacher because I preferred books and people to politics...
我当了老师，因为我更喜欢书本和人而不是权术。

prefer a charge〔charges〕 against

控告; 告发 put forward a charge against; submit

prefer...rather than

喜欢…胜过… like... better than
prefer sth rather than sth

I 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 than

The 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.)

提升某人为 promote sb to a position
prefer sth to sth

I 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-ing

I 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 sth

He was preferred to captain.

他被提升为队长。

• 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

prefer to-v, prefer v-ing

prefer后可接动词不定式,也可接动名词。其区别在于：接动词不定式时表示特定时刻或特定情况下的爱好,接动名词则表示一般情况下的爱好或日常爱好。

prefer, like

这两个词都有“喜欢”的意思。其区别在于：

1.like表示喜欢; 而prefer表示“更喜欢”“较喜欢”,相当于like better。

2.like可与(the) most〔best〕连用,而prefer不可。

3.两者之间一般用prefer,而三者之间则常用like。试比较以下两句：

I like the white and black ones. Which do you prefer?

I like the white, the black, and the red equally. Which do you like best?

4.可以说I prefer it so.,也可以说I so prefer it.,但不可以说I so like it.,而只能说I like it so.。

prefer, offer, present, proffer, tender

这组词都可表示“提出”。它们之间的区别是：

1.present特指通过礼仪形式或彬彬有礼的行为向对方提供考虑、选择或认可的服务、建议或物品。

2.offer是最基本、最常用的词,表示主动奉献某物或提出别人可能接受或拒绝的建议、意见、职务等。例如:

The teacher offered a few ideas to improve the plan.老师提出了几点改进计划的意见。

She offered to help me to learn English.她提出要帮我学英语。

3.proffer强调因慷慨所产生的自愿奉献行为,是较正式用语。例如:

Many people proffered blood and skin for the badly burnt worker.很多人要求为那个严重烧伤的工人献血献皮。

4.tender专指在公务上或法律上呈请正式批准,作一般用法时,强调温和有礼。例如:

She tendered him her resignation.她向他提交了辞呈。

5.prefer只用在19世纪的英语中或某些法律场合才表示“提出”。例如:

The police preferred a charge against the motorist.警方控告那个汽车司机。

Will the police prefer charges against the boys or just give them a warning?警方会控告那些男孩吗?还是只给他们一个警告?

下面两句的意思不同:

I prefer not to go.

我宁愿不去。

I don't prefer to go.

我不乐意去。

choose，select，elect，pick，prefer，opt

这些动词均含有“选择”之意。

choose普通用词，侧重根据个人意愿和判断从众多的对象中进行选择，着重被选者的优点。

select书面用词，具有庄严、正式的感情色彩。强调精选。

elect指按照一定的规章或法律，用投票等方式进行的认真慎重的选择。

pick口语用词，多指从个人角度仔细挑选，也含任意挑选之意。

prefer强调个人偏爱，不一定有选择的行动。

opt多指在几种可能性之间进行选择。

like，love，enjoy，fancy，adore，prefer

这些动词都有“喜欢、喜爱”之意。

like最常用词，往往只表不太强烈的兴趣或关注，不带强烈的感情，除非另加修饰语。

love不但表示强烈的喜欢，而且含依恋之情，因此多用于能激起深厚情感的人或物。

enjoy指对能提供感观或智力上满足或快乐的东西表示欣赏或喜爱。

fancy指喜爱投合自己心意、嗜好或欲望等的人或物。

adore非正式用词，口语体，指非常喜爱，带强烈的感情色彩。

prefer指有选择性或偏向性的喜欢。