Many people prefer to freelance from home.

许多人愿意在家当自由职业者。

I prefer Venice to Rome.

我喜欢威尼斯胜过罗马。

He prefers light fictions to serious novels.

比起严肃小说来, 他更为喜欢轻松的小说。

He preferred to stick with the common herd.

他愿意紧随群众。

She scorns the visible trappings of success, preferring to live unnoticed.

她鄙视标志成功的外在之物，更愿意默默无闻地生活。

We prefer to resolve disputes by amicable , nonbonding conciliation between two parites.

我方更倾向于双方通过友好、非约束力的调解来解决争议。

Some people prefer to brazen a thing out rather than admit defeat.

有的人不愿承认失败, 而是宁肯厚着脸皮干下去。

She prefers to play comic roles.

她更喜欢扮演滑稽角色。

Generally, I prefer oils to watercolours.

通常说来与水彩画相比我更喜欢油画。

I prefer this to that.

我宁愿要这个, 不要那个。

He was preferred to captain.

他被提升为队长。

Please don't think I mistrust you, but I would prefer to have our agreement in black and white.

请别以为我不相信你们, 不过, 我还是认为我们应把协议写成书面形式为好。

When they want to visit their friends, they prefer a jitney-bus to a ten-hour walk across a painful track.

当他们想去看望朋友时，宁愿花点钱坐公车，也不想疲惫地走上10个小时。

Only 41 per of the women, as against 62 per cent of the men, preferred to retire at the pensionable age.

女性的赞同率为41%，而男性则为62%。他们更倾向于在享受抚恤金的年纪退休。

I believe in calling a spade a spade. When a patient’s going to die, I say so. Most people prefer to know the truth.

我是个直言不讳的人，病人病入膏肓时，我就实话实说。大多数人希望知道实情。

(3) Uncia uncia prefer to inhabit in the rugged habitats with moderate shrubberies, and they also like to leave signs in valley bottoms rather than hillsides.

此外，雪豹还倾向于在谷底而不是山坡活动。

The fact is people watched him like he was a strange animal, and they preferred to enjail him into the unreal world rather than accept him as a member of them.

既然我们根本无法摆脱外物的钳制，就算是达利那样极端的例子，也是不可能的，何况普通人也无法和达利相提并论。

He replied that if I did not object he would prefer to speak English, and that if I would only speak clearly and owly he would be able to follow everything.

列宁回答说如果我不反对的话，他希望我说英语，只要我说得清楚，他就能跟得上我。