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preferably

US // (ˈprɛfərəblɪ, ˈprɛfrəblɪ) //

最好是,最好是这样,最好的是,最好是这样的

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : ideally; by preference; if one had a choice

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Examples

  • The essence of nearly every Disney film is that women need saving, preferably by a man from a superior social and economic class.

  • Tell me something interesting—preferably funny—about Horace Greeley.

  • Let the flower crown represent you, or rather go on and represent the flower crown—preferably on a farm somewhere.

  • Preferably Latin and Greek to let you comprehend where our civilization came from.

  • After writing all day I sometimes want to watch a whole lot of British TV, preferably set at Oxford, with dead bodies turning up.

  • Time is an object, but if Greece came in, preferably via Enos, the problem would be simplified.

  • Who hath passed over the sea, and found her, and brought her preferably to chosen gold?

  • Whereas her first impulse had been to awaken someone, preferably Sir Lucien, now her sole desire was to escape undetected.

  • But early in this venture, I must get me a pony—a pinto, preferably—small enough for me to ride and big enough to go places.

  • It should be remembered that in the best houses the bedrooms were preferably in the second story of the peristyle.