preferring
英 [prɪ'fɜ:ɪŋ] 美 [prɪ'fɜɪŋ]

v.

提出（请求、控诉等）( prefer的现在分词 )；提升；建议；选择某事物（而不选择他事物）

英英释义

prefer[ pri'fə:iŋ ]

• v.
  • like better; value more highly

    "Some people prefer camping to staying in hotels"; "We prefer sleeping outside"

  • select as an alternative; choose instead; prefer as an alternative

    同义词：chooseopt

  • promote over another

    同义词：favorfavour

  • give preference to one creditor over another

词组短语

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

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. She avoids big scenes...preferring to rely on small gestures and dead-on dialogue.
   她避免创造宏大画面，更喜欢依赖微小的手势和准确的对话。
2. True, Americans are less likely these days to keep their savings in the bank, preferring money-market funds.
   确实，在如今的年代里，美国的老百姓不太愿意把钱存放在银行里，他们更喜欢货币市场基金。
3. The young men seem to be preferring some request which the elder ones are indisposed to grant.
   年轻人似乎想提出某种年纪大的人不愿答应的要求。

权威例句

Take a risk: Preferring prevention over control of biological invaders
On the comparison of theories: preferring the most specific explanation
The imidazoline preferring receptor: binding studies in bovine, rat and human brainstem.
Different sensitivities to ethanol in alcohol-preferring and -nonpreferring rats.
Intragastric self-infusion of ethanol by ethanol-preferring and -nonpreferring lines of rats.
Induction of dependence on ethanol by free-choice drinking in alcohol-preferring rats
Effect of low dose ethanol on spontaneous motor activity in alcohol-preferring and -nonpreferring lines of rats ☆
Glial cells of the oligodendrocyte lineage express both kainate- and AMPA-preferring subtypes of glutamate receptor.
cDNA cloning, characterization, and brain region-specific expression of a neuromedin-B-preferring bombesin receptor
Microdialysis of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens of alcohol-preferring (P) rats during anticipation and operant self-administratio...