prefer
偏爱,喜欢,倾向于,偏向于
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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.
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Examples
While Pelosi prefers to do a comprehensive relief package, one policy she is said to be considering is a $75 billion bill that would bolster coronavirus testing and tracing programs nationwide.
Viruses, which hijack cells to copy their proteins, have, predictably, evolved a taste for the same codons that human cells prefer.
I prefer to keep the mobile version on the left-hand side and desktop version of the source code on the right-hand side.
This easel-style calendar doesn’t ask a whole lot of you, and some people rightfully prefer their office supplies that way.
While companies still overwhelmingly prefer board candidates with prior public board experience—72% of this year’s new picks had that record—they’re slowly accepting different kinds of leaders.
This final episode of Extras is the perfect Christmastime escape for those who prefer the bittersweet to the saccharine.
Environmentalists today generally prefer to limit roads and block new water projects, even in parched California.
We prefer to wave away the warning signs; like The Interview, Mulholland Drive was comfortably downplayed as over-the-top satire.
Both are offering original programing designed to be viewed however you prefer—one episode at a time or all at once.
And even those who consider themselves great patriots prefer to keep their savings in foreign currency.
We the American volume of Hochelaga to the Canadian one, although both are highly interesting.