preference是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. (for， to) 偏爱， 喜爱； 优惠； 优先选择，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。
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That she had not married, at thirty-three, was due entirely to the preference of modern young men for jazz-dancing hussies; and she was not only a young lady of delicate reservations but also a singer; in fact, she was going to the West Indies to preserve the wonders of primitive art for reverent posterity in the native ballads she would collect and sing to a delighted public--if only she learned how to sing.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 20CHAPTER III ObserveTHE first objects that assume a distinct presence before me, as Ilook far back, into the blank of my infancy, are my mother with herpretty hair and youthful shape, and Peggotty, with no shape at all,and eyes so dark that they seemed to darken their wholeneighbourhood in her face, and cheeks and arms so hard and redthat I wondered the birds didn't peck her in preference to apples.
-- So at dinner; when Mrs. Gummidge was always helpedimmediately after me, to whom the preference was given as avisitor of distinction.
-- Much as Peggottywould have disliked such a service, I believe she would haveretained it, for my sake, in preference to the best upon earth.
-- This modesty of mine directed my attention to the marine-storeshops, and such shops as Mr. Dolloby's, in preference to theregular dealers.
-- Whispersreach me of Miss Shepherd having said she wished I wouldn'tstare so, and having avowed a preference for Master Jones- forJones!a boy of no merit whatever!The gulf between me and MissShepherd widens.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Weston would take no denial; they must all dine at Randalls one day; even Mr. Woodhouse was per-suaded to think it a possible thing in preference to a division of the party.
-- Mr. Dixon's preference of her music to her friend's, I can answer for being very decided.'
-- It is natural, and it is honourable. Yes, honourable, I think, to chuse so well and so gratefully. But that it will be a fortunate preference is more that I can promise.
-- Emma did not want to be classed with the Mrs. Eltons, the Mrs. Perrys, and the Mrs. Coles, who would force themselves anywhere; neither could she feel any right of preference her-self she submitted, therefore, and only questioned Miss Bates farther as to her niece's appetite and diet, which she longed to be able to assist.
-- ' She was afraid she had done her nothing but disservice. It was true that she had not to charge herself, in this instance as in the former, with being the sole and original author of the mischief; with having suggested such feelings as might oth-erwise never have entered Harriet's imagination; for Harriet had acknowledged her admiration and preference of Frank Churchill before she had ever given her a hint on the subject; but she felt completely guilty of having encouraged what she might have repressed.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- in preference to objective reasoning.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Induced by these feelings, I was of course led to admire peaceable lawgivers, Numa, Solon, and Lycurgus, in preference to Romulus and Theseus.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What if Stonewall Jackson had worn one in preference to a slouch felt?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Which I meantersay, Pip," Joe whispered me, as we were being what Mr. Trabb called "formed" in the parlor, two and two,--and it was dreadfully like a preparation for some grim kind of dance; "which I meantersay, sir, as I would in preference have carried her to the church myself, along with three or four friendly ones wot come to it with willing harts and arms, but it were considered wot the neighbors would look down on such and would be of opinions as it were wanting in respect."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The affairs of this debtor were perplexed by a partnership, of which he knew no more than that he had invested money in it; by legal matters of assignment and settlement, conveyance here and conveyance there, suspicion of unlawful preference of creditors in this direction, and of mysterious spiriting away of property in that; and as nobody on the face of the earth could be more incapable of explaining any single item in the heap of confusion than the debtor himself, nothing comprehensible could be made of his case.
-- However, he had naturally felt a preference for his own country, and a wish to gain distinction there, and to do whatever service he could do, there rather than elsewhere.
-- 'Therefore,' said Mr Merdle, 'I can only give you a preference to a certain extent.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was generally evident whenever they met, that he DID admire her and to HER it was equally evident that Jane was yielding to the preference which she had begun to entertain for him from the first, and was in a way to be very much in love; but she considered with pleasure that it was not likely to be discovered by the world in general, since Jane united, with great strength of feeling, a composure of temper and a uniform cheerfulness of manner which would guard her from the suspicions of the impertinent.
-- We can all BEGIN freely a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be re-ally in love without encouragement.
-- He had not a temper to bear the sort of competition in which we stood the sort of preference which was often given me.'
-- 'I am by no means of the opinion, I assure you,' said he, 'that a ball of this kind, given by a young man of character, to respectable people, can have any evil tendency; and I am so far from objecting to dancing myself, that I shall hope to be honoured with the hands of all my fair cousins in the course of the evening; and I take this opportunity of solicit-ing yours, Miss Elizabeth, for the two first dances especially, a preference which I trust my cousin Jane will attribute to the right cause, and not to any disrespect for her.'
-- Without supposing them, from what she saw, to be very seriously in love, their preference of each other was plain enough to make her a little uneasy; and she resolved to speak to Elizabeth on the subject before she left Hertfordshire, and represent to her the imprudence of en-couraging such an attachment.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was far from depending on that result of his preference of her, which her mother and sister still considered as certain.
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