I always felt like I couldn't do enough to make him happy. I think he preferred my brother.
可我觉得不管做多少事情，总是难以让他高兴起来。
Temperamentally, like Hawthorne, he preferred a plot out of the past.
在气质上他像霍桑，喜欢陈年往事。
He would have preferred to be on good term with both his wife and his mother, but the effort of pleasing one without offending the other was like steering between Scylla and Charybdis.
他本愿和妻子与母亲都处好关系，但要讨好一方而不得罪另一方简直就如同驾船在斯库拉和卡律布狄斯之间航行， 两面为难。
His preferred weapon was a craggy hunk of stone attached to a chain that he wielded like a primitive mace.
他的首选武器是一块带着一根铁链的粗糙巨石，这东西挥舞起来就像原始的钉头锤。
Manchester United youngster Giuseppe Rossi admits he would someday like to return to Italy, with Milan his preferred destination.
曼联的青年球员罗西承认他想回到意大利，米兰将是他理想的目的地。
He preferred to end things before there were children or things like that.
他宁愿在有孩子(或者其他类似事情)之前结束关系。
"Neat little schoolgirls, but a bit too sweet. " For, like all very young men, he preferred older girls. So he flew to the anemones, but they were a bit too bitter for his taste.
“她们非常好看，”蝴蝶说，“简直是一群情窦初开的可爱的小姑娘，但是太不懂世事。”
"Neat little schoolgirls, but a bit too sweet. " For, like all very young men, he preferred older girls. So he flew to the anemones, but they were a bit too bitter for his taste.
“她们非常好看，”蝴蝶说，“简直是一群情窦初开的可爱的小姑娘，但是太不懂世事。”
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