查词 - prefers

prefer

prɪˈfɜː verb

1 to like someone or something more than someone or something else, so that you would choose it if you could 更喜欢;

This type of owl prefers a desert habitat.

这种猫头鹰喜欢沙漠的生活环境。

She prefers her coffee black.

她更喜欢喝清咖啡。

the government’s preferred option

政府倾向的选择

prefer sb/sth to sb/sth

a child that prefers his imaginary world to reality

喜欢自己的幻想世界甚于现实世界的孩子

Employees said they would prefer more flexible working hours.

员工们说他们希望有更灵活的工作时间。

prefer to do sth

I prefer to wear clothes made of natural fibers.

我更喜欢穿天然织物做的衣服。

Or, if you prefer , you can email us.

或者，你喜欢的话，可以给我们发电子邮件。

prefer doing sth

Chantal prefers travelling by train.

钱特尔更喜欢乘火车旅行。

We prefer that our teachers have a degree in early childhood education.

我们希望我们的老师拥有儿童早期教育的学位。

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I would prefer it if

a. used to say that you wish a situation was different b. used when telling someone politely not to do something 我希望〔用于礼貌地告诉别人不要做某事〕 spoken

Sales have gone down, and obviously we’d prefer it if that didn’t happen.

销售下滑了，显然我们是不希望这样的。

I’d prefer it if you didn’t smoke in front of the children.

我希望你不要在孩子面前抽烟。

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prefer charges

to make an official statement that someone has done something illegal [英，法律] 起诉，提出控告 BrE law