preferring是什么意思？

preferring

英[prɪ'fɜ:ɪŋ] 美[prɪ'fɜɪŋ]

• v. 提出（请求、控诉等）( prefer的现在分词 )，提升，建议，选择某事物（而不选择他事物）；

例句

• The young men seem to be preferring some request which the elder ones are indisposed to grant. 年轻人似乎想提出某种年纪大的人不愿答应的要求。
• She scorns the visible trappings of success, preferring to live unnoticed. 她鄙视标志成功的外在之物, 更愿意默默无闻地生活.
• I never use a single worm on the hook , preferring a cocktail of worm and maggot. 我从不单用一只虫作钓饵, 而喜欢用虫和蛆的混合物.
• He cannot prevent the reader from preferring Ethan Brand to the cloddish villagers of the tale. 读者还是喜欢伊桑?布兰德而讨厌故事里那些土头土脑的乡民. 这他是阻止不了的.
• Douglas held his tongue, preferring not to speak out on a politically sensitive issue. 道格拉斯沉默不语，不愿谈论政治敏感问题。
• Guscott rarely speaks out, preferring to keep his own counsel. 古斯科特很少发表意见，他更喜欢把自己的看法埋在心里。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  更喜欢；偏好
  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.
  例句
  Does he prefer a particular sort of music?... 他有特别喜欢的音乐吗？ I became a teacher because I preferred books and people to politics... 我当了老师，因为我更喜欢书本和人而不是权术。