preferring
v. 提出(請求、控訴等)( prefer的現在分詞 ); 提升; 建議; 選擇某事物(而不選擇他事物)
If you prefer someone or something, you like that person or thing better than another, and so you are more likely to choose them if there is a choice.
Does he prefer a particular sort of music?...
他有特別喜歡的音樂嗎?
I became a teacher because I preferred books and people to politics...
我當了老師,因為我更喜歡書本和人而不是權術。
Guscott rarely speaks out, preferring to keep his own counsel.
古斯科特很少發表意見,他更喜歡把自己的看法埋在心裡。
She scorns the visible trappings of success, preferring to live unnoticed.
她鄙視標誌成功的外在之物, 更願意默默無聞地生活.
Douglas held his tongue, preferring not to speak out on a politically sensitive issue.
道格拉斯沉默不語,不願談論政治敏感問題。
He cannot prevent the reader from preferring Ethan Brand to the cloddish villagers of the tale.
讀者還是喜歡伊桑?布蘭德而討厭故事裡那些土頭土腦的鄉民. 這他是阻止不了的.
I never use a single worm on the hook , preferring a cocktail of worm and maggot.
我從不單用一隻蟲作釣餌, 而喜歡用蟲和蛆的混合物.