prefer

过去式：preferred过去分词：preferred现在分词：preferring第三人称单数：prefers

1. vt. 更喜欢 choose one thing or action rather than another; like better
2. vt. 提出; 建议 put forward for official consideration or action according to law

• prefer buns更喜欢吃馒头
• prefer classic music更喜欢古典音乐
• prefer country life更喜欢乡村的生活
• prefer new works更喜欢新作品
• prefer popular music更喜欢流行音乐
• prefer rice更喜欢吃米饭
• prefer some requests提出要求
• prefer tea更喜欢喝茶
• prefer the general approach更喜欢一般性的处理方法
• prefer vegetable宁愿吃蔬菜
• prefer winter weather更喜欢冬天的天气

• prefer cautiously小心翼翼地提出
• prefer conscientiously诚心诚意地提出
• prefer emotionally激动地提出
• prefer instinctively本能地提出
• prefer manfully果断地提出
• prefer openly公开提出
• prefer overwhelmingly极其喜欢
• prefer particularly尤其提出
• prefer personally个人宁愿
• prefer politically政治上宁可
• prefer reasonably明智地提出
• prefer remarkably不平常地提出
• prefer ruthlessly无情地提出
• prefer savagely野蛮地提出
• prefer scathingly不留情地提出
• prefer selectively有选择地提出
• prefer sharply尖刻地提出
• prefer ultimately最后提出
• prefer unaccountably莫名其妙地提出
• prefer unexpectedly意外地提出
• prefer unthinkingly不假思索地提出

• prefer above all others最喜欢的
• prefer charges against sb对某人提出控告
• prefer to比起…更喜欢…
• prefer fish to meat喜欢吃鱼而不喜欢吃肉
• prefer to singing比较喜欢唱歌
• prefer death to surrender宁死不屈

would prefer宁愿；更喜欢

prefer to do宁可做某事；更喜欢做某事

prefer doing喜欢做某事

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. Which one do you prefer, an apple or an orange?
   你想要哪个，苹果还是橘子？
4. Police preferred charges against him for theft.
   警方指控他有偷窃行为。