had rather...than

释义

与其…不如…，宁愿…不愿…；

权威例句

"Ordinary North-Carolinese,""I Had Rather Stay than to Go with You"
"I had rather he should be a blockhead than an atheist":the undermining of clerical guidance in the eighteenth-century novel
Black Giles, the poacher : with some account of a family who had rather live by their wits than their work : in two parts.
"I had rather to adopt a child than get it": Mythical Lost Children in Caryl Phillips's The 'Nature of Blood'
"I had rather be called a journalist than an artist": an assessment of the artistic credibility of the novels of H.G. Wells
"I had rather be a thing than an angel.": a comparative study of Jane Austen's and Charlotte Brontë's views on women's status in ...
"The Lord is my portion and I had rather be his minister in Bruff than Prime Minister of England!"
Chronic low back pain: patient had chronic rather than acute pain.
Patient had chronic rather than acute pain
I Would Have Rather Had Three Points, Than a Wonder Goal, Admits Hamilton