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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Have you ever heard of any tutor whom you would prefer to another?"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Three kings protested to me, 'that in their whole reigns they never did once prefer any person of merit, unless by mistake, or treachery of some minister in whom they confided; neither would they do it if they were to live again:' and they showed, with great strength of rea-son, 'that the royal throne could not be supported without corruption, because that positive, confident, restiff temper, which virtue infused into a man, was a perpetual clog to public business.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So near was Mr. Bounderby or, if the reader should prefer it, so far off.
-- But on winter evenings, when he has fallen asleep at his table, I have heard him, what I should prefer to describe as partially choke.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For myself, I am certain I shall prefer it.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sheer spite of it all, just sheer joy in pulling somebody else to bits...Protagoras, or whoever it was!And Alcibiades, and all the other little disciple dogs joining in the fray!I must say it makes one prefer Buddha, quietly sitting under a bo-tree, or Jesus, telling his disciples little Sunday stories, peacefully, and without any mental fireworks.
-- Because I infinitely prefer the spontaneous spite to the con-cocted sugaries; now they ARE poison; when I begin saying what a fine fellow Clifford is, etc., etc., then poor Clifford is to be pitied.
-- 'Would you prefer self-important animalities?'
-- You may prefer to stay mistress of Wragby.
-- That's why I prefer those American shirts, that you put on like a jacket.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I am obliged to you,' she returned, 'but my arrangements are made, and I prefer to go my own way in my own manner.'
-- The old man took it coldly enough, and seemed to prefer his jaws, to which he returned as soon as he could.
-- Its movables were ugly old chairs with worn-out seats, and ugly old chairs without any seats; a threadbare patternless carpet, a maimed table, a crippled wardrobe, a lean set of fire-irons like the skeleton of a set deceased, a washing-stand that looked as if it had stood for ages in a hail of dirty soapsuds, and a bedstead with four bare atomies of posts, each terminating in a spike, as if for the dismal accommodation of lodgers who might prefer to impale themselves.
-- I don't quite follow you, but it's natural I suppose that Fanny should prefer to be outside, and even that you often should, too.
-- If it is any compensation for my long confinement within these narrow limits not that I complain of being afflicted; you know I never complain of that if it is any compensation to me for long confinement to this room, that while I am shut up from all pleasant change I am also shut up from the knowledge of some things that I may prefer to avoid knowing, why should you, of all men, grudge me that belief?'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Thank you, I prefer spiders,' she replied, fishing up two unwary little ones who had gone to a creamy death.
-- 'I prefer the lovering part.
-- I am to have my meals with the children, if I prefer it to the great table, and for the present I do, for I am bashful, though no one will believe it.
-- 'It's a love of a bonnet, but I prefer the face inside, for it looks young and happy again.'
-- 'Your lady may prefer this.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We are going to the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and would prefer not to be detained."
-- There are those sharks now over the side, don't you see they prefer it tough and rare?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A nice person to prefer a charge against a poor boy!'
-- Having prepared his mind, by solitude and gloom, to prefer any society to the companionship of his own sad thoughts in such a dreary place, he was now slowly instilling into his soul the poison which he hoped would blacken it, and change its hue for ever.
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