After only 15 hours, they can distinguish their mother's voice and prefer it to that of strangers.
仅仅15小时之后，他们便可以分辨母亲和陌生人的声音，并更喜欢前者。
It is reported that more and more people prefer to buy organic food even though it is more expensive.
据报道，越来越多人喜欢购买有机食品，尽管它们更贵些。
It is commonly asserted that older people prefer to receive care from family members.
人们普遍确认，老年人更愿意由家人照顾。
It appears reasonable to assume that, other things being equal, most hostel tenants would prefer single to shared rooms.
似乎有理由这样想：同等条件下，大多数旅店房客更喜欢住单人间而不愿意与人合住。
In general, it is plausible to suppose that we should prefer peace and quiet to noise.
一般而言，我们有理由推断，人们应该更喜欢平静安宁而不是噪音。
It seems that many people prefer dogs to cats.
似乎很多人都喜欢狗胜过猫。
Instead,computer-makers prefer to emphasise the scale of the problem—since that leads naturallyto a sales pitch for the various technologies they have devised to mitigate it.
与之相反，电脑制造商则更喜欢强调问题的规模——因为这样让他们可以很自然的宣传他们为缓和该问题所采取的各种措施。
Some managers prefer to handle layoffs on Friday afternoons, assuming that it gives everybody a chance to decompress.
有些雇主喜欢在周五下午进行裁员，心想这样可以让他们有几天的休息时间。
A study found men who profess their love early in a relationship are not to be trusted - and that women actually prefer it when males wait to get serious.
一项研究发现，在恋情初期就示爱的男人不可靠，女人其实更喜欢男人在恋情步入正轨后再表白。
It is a great alternative way to display information which I prefer over gadgets and sidebars that keep staring at your face.
对于终日要面对的信息，这是一种代替我喜欢的gadget和工具条的好方法。
As much as I would prefer it otherwise, in this financial environment I see no choice but to require that all securitizers retain a meaningful part of the securities they issue.
虽然我宁愿有别的做法，但是在目前的金融环境下，我看没有别的选择，只能要求那些证券化方持有他们所发行证券中的相当一大部分。
To do all of this, we prefer to have tools that support these development steps, since doing it manually tends to be cumbersome and error-prone.
要做所有这些事情，我们更愿意有支持这些开发步骤的工具，因为手工做往往既费时又容易出错。
Yet it would be absurd to claim that all foreigners in Libya will go to Italy; most would prefer to return home. There is little evidence of their fleeing northward so far.
但是如果说呆在利比亚的所有外国人都将逃往意大利，这有点不切实际，因为大多数人还是愿意回到自己的祖国，迄今为止，还没有迹象表明他们将撤向北方。
It seems, though, that people prefer not to postpone their demand. They would rather spend their incomes right away.
可是，人们似乎不愿推迟他们的需求，宁愿将其收入立刻花费掉。
That is something that Republicans simply do not say out loud; it would add inconvenient facts to a battle that they prefer to wage at a purely emotional level.
共和党只不过不大肆宣扬这一点罢了，这会增加斗争中不利于他们的事实，他们喜欢在纯粹的感性层面上争论。
In fact, it seems that many Brits, given the choice, prefer to identify with the class they were born into rather than that which their jobs or income would suggest.
事实上，如果能够选择的话，似乎很多英国人都倾向于把自己归人到自己出生时所属的那个阶级，而不是他们的工作或收人所显示的那个阶级。
If you prefer to go a gym, it is wise to choose one near your home or office so that it does not require too much effort to get there.
如果你喜欢去健身房的话，挑一个离家或办公室近的是明智的之举，不用费太多力气就可以到达。
And if they prefer a particular kind of message, that means chances are that they will read it and take it to heart.
而且，如果他们他们喜欢某类消息的话，也就是说他们会读那些信息，并记在心里。
It has always been a mystery to me who city dwellers, who appreciate all these things, obstinately pretend that they would prefer to live in the country.
城里人对这一切心里很明白，却偏要执拗地装出他们喜欢住在乡村的样子，这对我来说一直是个谜。
Personally I prefer drinking green tea as it was meant to be and enjoying it that way!
就个人而言，我倾向于饮用绿茶的原味，因为我喜欢绿茶的味道。
She started to ask Dale if he was going to do it tonight - to murder her husband - but then decided that he, probably like most professional killers, would prefer to speak in euphemisms.
她正准备问戴尔今晚是否能动手：谋杀她的丈夫。但后来有感觉戴尔可能和大多数职业杀手一样，说话喜欢委婉。
To solve this problem, we have to know what causes it and there are two reasons why you might prefer the idea of intelligent design to that of evolution.
要解决这个问题，我们必须要了解起因，有两个原因可能使你倾向于智慧设计论多过进化论。
Many of its leading lights actually prefer other voting systems: it will be hard to disguise that lack of enthusiasm during the referendum campaign.
其中很多重要人物其实更倾向于其它选举系统：在全民公投的游说中缺乏热情很难伪装。
The survey also found that many of the singles (42 percent) prefer to keep the encounter brief, and almost one-third (32 percent) look for a place that makes it easy to end the date quickly.
调查同样发现许多单身人士（42%）更倾向于让约会简单一点，有将近三分之一（32%）的人希望到一个可以让约会快点结束的地方约会。
It is a very true truism that men are good at music because they prefer it to speech.
我很有自知之明地知道，男性都善于音乐，因为他们喜欢音乐多余演讲。
When you set the parameter to 0, it tells VMM that you prefer that it steal only file pages rather than computational pages.
当将这个参数设置为0时，它告诉V MM希望仅偷取文件页面，而不是计算页面。
And that is perhaps why it is loaded with socially inept information junkies who would prefer to hang out by themselves instead of attending a party.
也许这正是为什么IT充斥着那些不擅社交的、更愿意自己出去闲逛也不参加聚会的人的原因。
To be on the safe side people prefer to stick to repeating things that everyone knows and, bizarrely, others like them better for it.
保险起见，人们更乐于重复所有人都知晓的事物，荒唐的是，其他人也乐于如此。
It's a given that self-denial can be frustrating. But who knew it could make me prefer to watch Fight Club again.
众所周知，自我否定让人沮丧。但谁知道，它还能给“搏击俱乐部”带来更多的观众呢！
It's a given that self-denial can be frustrating. But who knew it could make me prefer to watch Fight Club again.
众所周知，自我否定让人沮丧。但谁知道，它还能给“搏击俱乐部”带来更多的观众呢！
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