prefer的详尽释义是：v.(动词)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）优先权建议申请提升，提拔。prefer的例句是用作及物动词(vt.)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。prefer名词:preferrer；过去式:preferred；过去分词:preferred；现在分词:preferring；第三人称单数:prefers。
一、详尽释义点此查看prefer的详细内容
二、双解释义
三、词典解释
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。
四、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。
五、常用短语
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 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。
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-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。
六、经典引文
He was preferred Chief Baron of the Exchequer.
出自：T. FullerFerdinand promised..to prefer no foreigners to municipal offices.
出自：W. H. Prescott七、常见错误
误 Which do you prefer most, this or that?
正 Which do you prefer, this or that?
析 prefer意为“更喜欢”,即like better,故不可再用more, most修饰。
我喜欢橘子而不喜欢苹果。误 I prefer oranges more than apples.
正 I prefer oranges to apples.
析 表示“喜欢…而不喜欢…”时,须用介词to,而不用more than。
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