She was chosen in preference to her sister.
她被选中了，而不是她妹妹。
Increases in the number of sucks were used as an indicator of the infant's attention to or preference for a given visual display.
吮吸次数的增加表明婴儿注意到或是喜爱眼前出现的物品。
In one area, it made painstaking efforts to quantify fertility preference to derive figures for planned and unplanned pregnancies.
在一个领域，它付出了艰苦的努力来量化生育偏好，以得出计划生育和非计划生育的数据。
The contest is open to everyone, but preference is given to authors living in the Eau Claire, Menomonie, and the Chippewa Falls region.
这场比赛对所有人开放，但住在欧克莱尔、梅诺莫尼和齐佩瓦瀑布地区的作家可以优先。
Under the alternative vote system, voters would be invited to rank candidates on the ballot in order of preference.
采用选择投票制，选民可在选票上根据喜好程度为候选人排序。
Record the output voltage and perform some simple arithmetic to find the temperature in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit according to preference.
只需记录输出电压并执行一些简单的计算，就能找到以摄氏度或华氏度为单位的温度。
You should certainly use these in preference to the more verbose traditional means of accomplishing the same thing.
你当然应该优先使用这些，而不是传统的冗长的方式，来完成相同的任务。
You need to store the globalization preference Settings in a table database.
需要将全球化首选项设置存储在表数据库中。
This is probably because a fetus starved of oxygen will send oxygenated blood to the brain in preference to rest of the body.
这可能是因为一个缺乏氧的胚胎会首先把充氧的血液输送到脑部，然后才送到身体的其他部位。
Even there, English was often chosen as the medium of education in preference to the inhabitants' mother tongues.
即便在那里，他们也更青睐于选英语作为教育的语言，而不是他们的母语。
In these places, informal quota systems give preference to ethnic Malays in the faculties of sought-after subjects such as law, medicine and engineering.
在这些学校，不正规的配额系统给予马来土著人优先选择他们想要的学科，例如法学，医学，建筑学。
But the circumstance was sufficient to lead him to select Tess in preference to the other pretty milkmaids when he wished to contemplate contiguous womankind.
但是这情形已经足以使他在希望观察身边这些女性时，选择苔丝而宁愿放弃别的漂亮女孩子了。
In any group trying to make a decision there is likely to be an initial preference in one particular direction.
在任何试图作出决策的群体当中，很可能都有朝向某个特定方向最初偏向。
But more than two in five nervously refused to express a preference; many may abstain through fear.
但是有五分之二的人神经紧张地拒绝表达意愿；很多人可能由于害怕而弃权。
The net effect is that P2 priority threads run in preference to the P1 thread which is not what the specification requires.
实际看到的效果是P2优先级的线程要优先于P 1线程，而这并不是规范里要求的。
A font can usually compliment an artwork and adds definition to it… Various font types have been showcased before in accordance to the user’s preference.
选对合适的字体通常能够增强设计的艺术性，也能给予作品某种定义......使用者从各种各样的字体中挑选符合喜好的类型。
The inhabitants, apparently Neanderthals, selectively used pine for heating in preference to more available types of wood.
棚屋居民很显然是尼安德特人，他们选择性地使用松木取暖，而不使用其他更易采集的木材。
If the user is not logged in, then you want to use the language preference which is set in the browser.
如果用户未登录，则要使用浏览器中设置的语言首选项。
If it's a friend or a relative, always use hand-written letters in preference to typing because they're more personal and represent your sincerity.
通常是朋友或者亲戚之间用手写的方式，因为这样更个人，也代表你的真诚。
It allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference.
选择投票制允许选民根据自己的喜好对候选人进行等级排序。
In general, NFS v4 should be used in preference to previous versions, since it is more efficient and generally handles the performance of large loads and busy network environments.
一般而言，NFSv4应当优先于之前的版本得到使用，因为它更高效且通常处理大负荷和繁忙网络环境的性能。
Where those two languages can be error prone, Ceylon forces a block structure on the cases and removes the default case in preference to an else block.
在这两种语言容易出错的地方，Ceylon要求所有格有严格的块结构，取消了default所有格，保留了else块。
Enter browser.urlbar.maxRichResults in the Filter field to reach this preference.
在过滤器栏中键入browser.urlbar.maxRichResults。
Cached data should never be used in preference to authoritative data, so if caching would cause this to happen the data should not be cached.
缓存的数据不能优先于权威域名被使用，如果缓存之后可能引起这种情况，那么这个数据将不会被缓存。
Pamela uses the True Moon Nodes in preference to the Mean Moon Nodes in her calculations.
相对于平均月球交点，帕梅拉在她的计算中优先使用的是真实月球交点。
This is probably because a fetus starved of oxygen will send oxygenated blood to the brain in preference to the rest of the body.
这可能是因为一个缺乏氧的胚胎会首先把充氧的血液输送到脑部，然后才送到身体的其他部位。
Its importance was bound to diminish in proportion as the artistic genius began to emphasize the subjective conception of the object in preference to the object itself.
对于比例来说它的重要性肯定会减弱，因为艺术天才们开始注重客体的主观概念而超过了客体本身。
Many of these products were bought in preference to their own.
这些产品中有很多是因为认为自己的产品不佳才购进的。
Rule of Economy: Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time.
译：经济性准则：程序员的时间是宝贵的，用机器时间来保护程序员的时间，即如果和机器时。
Rule of Economy: Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time.
译：经济性准则：程序员的时间是宝贵的，用机器时间来保护程序员的时间，即如果和机器时。
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