prefer的意思是：vt.宁可；较喜欢；提出（控告）。prefer的详尽释义是v.(动词)喜欢...（而不喜欢...），更喜欢，选择某事物（而不选择他事物）宁可...（而不...），宁愿（选择），愿意比起...来还是...好，认为…胜过【律】提起，提出，对…起诉任命录用推荐介绍【律】给与优先获得偿付权，给（债权人）优先权建议申请提升，提拔。prefer的例句是用作及物动词(vt.)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。
一、详尽释义点此查看prefer的详细内容
二、双解释义
三、词典解释
1.更喜欢；偏好
If youprefer someone or something, you like that person or thing better than another, and so you are more likely to choose them if there is a choice.
e.g. Does heprefer a particular sort of music?...
他有特别喜欢的音乐吗？
e.g. I became a teacher because I preferred books and people to politics...
我当了老师，因为我更喜欢书本和人而不是权术。
四、例句
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。
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。
Which one do you prefer, an apple or an orange?
你想要哪个，苹果还是橘子？
Police preferred charges against him for theft.
警方指控他有偷窃行为。
五、词汇搭配
六、经典引文
He was preferred Chief Baron of the Exchequer.
出自：T. FullerFerdinand promised..to prefer no foreigners to municipal offices.
出自：W. H. Prescott七、常见错误
误 Which do you prefer most, this or that?
正 Which do you prefer, this or that?
析 prefer意为“更喜欢”,即like better,故不可再用more, most修饰。
我喜欢橘子而不喜欢苹果。误 I prefer oranges more than apples.
正 I prefer oranges to apples.
析 表示“喜欢…而不喜欢…”时,须用介词to,而不用more than。
prefer的相关近义词
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