1·A local firm is to be preferred.
选一家当地的公司更好。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·Certain types of goods are preferred by pilferers.
某些类型的商品较为小偷所喜欢。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·Personally speaking, I've always preferred Italian food.
就我个人来讲，我总是偏爱意大利菜。
—— 《牛津词典》
4·It was a loaded question and I preferred not to comment.
这是个带有圈套的问题，还是不作评论为好。
—— 《牛津词典》
5·They preferred not to partake in the social life of the town.
他们不想参加这个镇的社交活动。
—— 《牛津词典》
6·Sunday is the preferred day for advertising inserts in newspapers.
星期天是添加广告插页的最佳日子。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
7·I became a teacher because I preferred books and people to politics.
我成为了一名教师是因为我更喜欢书籍和人而不是政治。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
8·One student commented that she preferred literature to social science.
一位学生解释说，较之于社会科学她更喜欢文学。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
9·He preferred the company of those who were intellectually inferior to himself.
他喜欢与那些智力不如他的人为伍。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
10·The election may not be the traditional two-horse race between the preferred Democrat and Republican party candidates.
这次选举可能并不是支持率最高的民主党与共和党候选人间的传统两方角逐。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
1·Personally speaking, I've always preferred Italian food.
就我个人来讲，我总是偏爱意大利菜。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·A southeast-facing entrance per se thus seems to be the specific nest feature preferred by females, rather than the effect of selective positioning on current at the nest entrance.
因此，朝向东南的入口本身似乎是雌鸟偏爱的特定巢穴特征，而不是选择位置对巢穴入口电流的影响。
3·If this is your preferred way of traveling, than I have no place to make any negative judgments about you.
如果这是你偏爱的出游方式的话，那我也没有资格对你的选择作出负面评价。
4·But I think people should be able to choose their preferred format, and competition is good.
但是，我认为人们应该能够选择他们偏爱的格式，而且竞争是件好事。
5·The choice of which to use is up to the modelers, their preferred styles, or applicability to the problem domains.
选择哪一种来使用取决于建模者、他们更加偏爱的风格、或者问题域的适用性。