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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So that I prefer to make no chronicle for that gap of time, to tell only one car-dinal incident of the ten months I spent as an intimate of these half-humanised brutes.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Put it to your judgment, then, whether you would prefer taking such a prisoner as that into your en-campment, or one like myself, who am a man that it would greatly rejoice your nation to see with naked hands.'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "No; I prefer tea."
-- "No; I should prefer to be alone."
-- When Stroeve was holding forth at length on the excellence of Monet, he said: "I prefer Winterhalter."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I must say I prefer matches.
-- "I should prefer a moor-cock or guinea-fowl," replied Pencroft, "still, if they are good to eat " "They are good to eat, and also their flesh is very delicate," replied Herbert.
-- "Port Neb, that would do very well!And Cape Gideon " "I should prefer borrowing names from our country," said the reporter, "which would remind us of America."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you prefer going alone, only say the word and you'll find that we shan't trouble you.'
-- 'I prefer being alone,' replied the single gentleman.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I prefer to visit prisons in the evening," the Englishman replied.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And immediately I began to prefer the dangers that I knew to those I knew not.
-- "Because, you see, since I am mutineers' doctor, or prison doctor as I prefer to call it," says Doctor Livesey in his pleasantest way, "I make it a point of honour not to lose a man for King George (God bless him!)
-- He had still a foot in either camp, and there was no doubt he would prefer wealth and freedom with the pirates to a bare escape from hanging, which was the best he had to hope on our side.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes they put snares on the top of high trees that the birds of paradise prefer to frequent.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I much prefer to think of the lark rising up in the morning upon a humanless world.
-- "But if you'd got as sick as I have of rowdy go-as-you-please in the house, you'd prefer it if people were peaceful and conventional, at least at meals."
-- I prefer unlucky things.
-- He gave her the best things at the table, he had a bottle of slightly sweet, delicious golden wine brought out for dinner, knowing she would prefer it to the burgundy.
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