preferred 的定义
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.
preferred 近义词
favorite, chosen
更多preferred例句
- Flatly put, people prefer and trust organic links over paid ads.
- Most coyotes — even ones that live in cities — prefer wild prey, he says.
- When we brought you the new taste of Coke, we knew that millions would prefer it.
- Euclid doesn’t even name the Pythagorean Theorem we all learn in school after Pythagoras, preferring just to state it plainly.
- Analysts says Beijing preferred to partner the Pakistan military to guarantee projects are completed, bypassing the democratically elected federal and state governments.
- What they found was that most people preferred to work with the lovable fool rather than the competent jerk.
- They preferred having an independent arbitrator in place to hear any and all appeals.
- According to Swiss press reports, younger cats in the litter are the most tender and, as such, are the preferred cat cuts.
- Silence was clearly the preferred strategy of Republican candidates up and down the ballot.
- Clients supply transportation, lodging, and ingredients, including the preferred strain of ganja.
- He was contemporary with Milton, and preferred before him by critics of the day, but has now sunk into oblivion.
- As for him, he much preferred the darkness of his cool, damp galleries under the ground.
- Though by birth duke of St. Cloud, he preferred the ecclesiastical state to political distinction.
- It is the place only where Spain is commended, and preferred before England itself.
- Jenner's stain, which gives a somewhat similar picture, is preferred by many for differential counting of leukocytes.