However he made clear he prefers holding elections early, rather than in June 2010 as scheduled.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

God prefers the offering of Abel, and as a result Cain is distressed and jealous to the point of murder.

上帝经常给亚伯恩典,结果，引发了该隐的嫉妒之心，起了杀意。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Well, put a pretty face here, an ugly face here, see if the baby prefers to look at the pretty one.

在这边放一张漂亮的脸庞,在这边放一张丑陋的脸庞,观察婴儿是否更喜欢注视漂亮的那个

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Diatta says the family prefers to handle it themselves instead of going to the authorities.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

It usually follows from this that somebody like this points out that whereas we all know that a democratic society is the best society to live in, poetry prefers feudal society: it makes better poetry.

赞成这种观点的人指出,虽然我们都知道,民主社会是最适合生存的，诗歌却更喜欢封建社会：,因为封建社会更适合诗歌创作。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

But the New Castle HistoricalSociety in Chappaqua prefers to remember the glory years.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

But if you're the type who prefers to be bed by midnight, that's quite okay too; there'll be plenty of time to work on the project.

但是，如果你习惯半夜睡觉，也同样可以,你还有足够的时间完成这个项目。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Mr.Fillon said he prefers the idea of a public-private partnership to buy up the bad assets, and that this will prompt European countries to consider similar measures.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

I imagine that everybody here prefers this life.

我想这里所有人都更喜欢这种生命。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

She prefers to be known as a contemporary Country singer.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15

Each player prefers a different Nash Equilibrium.

每个参与人偏爱不同的纳什均衡

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Literary theory just takes those for granted as part of the sense experience, as one might say, of any reader and prefers, rather, to dwell on questions of description, analysis and speculation, as I've said.

文学理论把这些,当作是读者感性认识的一部分，它更喜欢讨论关于描述，分析和猜测的问题，正如我之前，说过的那样。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选