prefer是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (to) 更喜欢， 宁愿，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- ' or twenty years hence ' 'You do me too much honour,' said the Marquis; 'still, I prefer that supposition.'
-- rejoined Stryver, laughing boastfully, 'though I don't prefer any claim to being the soul of Romance (for I hope I know better), still I am a tenderer sort of fellow than YOU.'
-- 'I prefer to form my own opinion, without the aid of his.'
-- 'I don't know; I prefer not to do so.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To be sure, he thought he had nothing to risk in his own person; but yet, he would prefer sending somebody else, to bring him intelligence about the weavers, and their work, before he troubled himself in the affair.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "If you prefer it, your excellency, a private room will be free directly; Prince Golistin with a lady.
-- "Yes, that is a hateful position!That's why most fellows prefer to have to do with Klaras.
-- Now that he's so thick with Lidia Ivanovna and Landau, they all say he's crazy, and I should prefer not to agree with everybody, but this time I can't help it."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I prefer sticking to my lab.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We prefer to live on other people's ideas, it's what we are used to!Am I right, am I right?'
-- A modern cultivated man would prefer prison to living with such strangers as our peasants.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Atpresent I would prefer to see you anything rather than a friend, tome, or to any one in whom I feel an interest.'
-- I amhappy to believe, but there are some) that would prefer to do whatI should call bow down before idols.
-- 'Thank you, Trot,' replied myaunt, 'I prefer to sit upon my property.'
-- 'Then why, my love,' said my aunt, lookingearnestly at me, 'why do you think I prefer to sit upon thisproperty of mine to-night?'
-- And so,' said Agnes, quietly, 'I feel obliged tobear her company, when I might prefer to be alone.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you prefer Mr. Martin to every other person; if you think him the most agreeable man you have ever been in company with, why should you hesitate?
-- He paused and growing cooler in a moment, added, with only sarcastic dryness, 'If Mr. Perry can tell me how to convey a wife and five children a distance of an hundred and thirty miles with no greater expense or incon-venience than a distance of forty, I should be as willing to prefer Cromer to South End as he could himself.'
-- The remaining five were left to their own powers, and Emma doubted their getting on very well; for Mr. Knightley seemed little disposed for con-versation; Mrs. Elton was wanting notice, which nobody had inclination to pay, and she was herself in a worry of spirits which would have made her prefer being silent.
-- Come on a donkey, however, if you prefer it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She seemed to prefer a less tragic probability; to have saved a man from death involved talk that should harmonise with the dignity of such a deed and she shunned it.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not, Scarlett loyally hastened to tell herself, that she would prefer a mother like Mrs. Tarletonto Ellen, but still it would be fun to romp with a mother.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she did not; on the contrary, she seemed to prefer my being ignorant.
-- I prefer not to anticipate my communication here; you will impart as much or as little of it as you please to your friends afterwards; I have nothing to do with that."
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