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prefer

/pri-fur/US // prɪˈfɜr //UK // (prɪˈfɜː) //

偏爱,喜欢,倾向于,偏向于

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    pre·ferred, pre·fer·ring.

    • : to set or hold before or above other persons or things in estimation; like better; choose rather than: to prefer beef to chicken.
    • : Law. to give priority, as to one creditor over another.
    • : to put forward or present for consideration or sanction.
    • : to put forward or advance, as in rank or office; promote: to be preferred for advancement.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbfavor; single out

Examples

  • While Pelosi prefers to do a comprehensive relief package, one policy she is said to be considering is a $75 billion bill that would bolster coronavirus testing and tracing programs nationwide.

  • Viruses, which hijack cells to copy their proteins, have, predictably, evolved a taste for the same codons that human cells prefer.

  • I prefer to keep the mobile version on the left-hand side and desktop version of the source code on the right-hand side.

  • This easel-style calendar doesn’t ask a whole lot of you, and some people rightfully prefer their office supplies that way.

  • While companies still overwhelmingly prefer board candidates with prior public board experience—72% of this year’s new picks had that record—they’re slowly accepting different kinds of leaders.

  • This final episode of Extras is the perfect Christmastime escape for those who prefer the bittersweet to the saccharine.

  • Environmentalists today generally prefer to limit roads and block new water projects, even in parched California.

  • We prefer to wave away the warning signs; like The Interview, Mulholland Drive was comfortably downplayed as over-the-top satire.

  • Both are offering original programing designed to be viewed however you prefer—one episode at a time or all at once.

  • And even those who consider themselves great patriots prefer to keep their savings in foreign currency.

  • We prefer the American volume of Hochelaga to the Canadian one, although both are highly interesting.

  • For instance, few workmen will take a holiday; they prefer a "day's out" or "play."

  • The Cockalorum pondered over this for a moment, and then murmuring, "I prefer croquet," floundered away through the waving grass.

  • The Russians, on the contrary, prefer orange-yellow transparent specimens.

  • It is immaterial to whom the transfer is made if the purpose be to prefer one creditor to another.