She asked me if I preferred that orange dress.
她问我喜不喜欢那件橙色的连衣裙。
It was a loaded question and I preferred not to comment.
这是个带有圈套的问题,还是不作评论为好。
I preferred to be outside with the animals and enjoyed studying them.
我喜欢在外面和动物们在一起,并很享受观察他们的乐趣。
So I preferred spending lots of time on repeatedly reading a lovely story through and through.
所以我喜欢花大量的时间去反复地阅读一个可爱的故事。
While it is available with a more-powerful eight-cylinder engine, I preferred the six-cylinder model's more nimble, better-balanced feel.
虽然该车也有马力更强的八缸发动机可供选择,但我更喜欢使用六缸发动机的型号,因为它给人一种更灵活、更平衡的感觉。
I preferred sleeping to seeing the film.
我宁愿睡觉也不愿看这场电影。
I preferred doing something to doing nothing.
我喜欢做点什么,而不喜欢闲着。
I preferred to go home rather than go to the cinema.
我宁愿回家也不愿去电影院。
I preferred watching TV at home to going to the concert.
他宁愿在家看电视也不愿意看音乐会。
I preferred reading books and watching TV to playing football that time.
那个时候,我更喜欢读书和看电视,而不是去踢足球。
So to tell you the truth, I preferred being at home playing streetball during my vacation time.
所以,说实在的假期里我宁愿泡在家里打街球。
I preferred to doze on Bianca's couch rather than argue about the merits of this or that painter.
与其跟他们争论这个或那个画家的是非曲直,我倒不如利用这些时间在比安卡的睡椅上打个盹儿。
I preferred the Uniden because it was static free both inside my apartment and up to a block away.
我偏爱友利电电话是因为无论在室内还是在一个街区之外,它都不受静电的干扰。
Not wanting to make my controversial views known yet, I preferred to follow the crowd for a while.
我还不想公开我那些会引起争论的观点,宁可暂且随大溜。
Not wanting to make my controversial views known yet, I preferred to follow the crowd for a while.
我还不想公开我那些会引起争论的观点,宁可暂且随大流。
However, I preferred to keep the reason secret, and we talked about other things for the rest of the journey.
然而,我依然喜欢把其中的缘故保密起来,我们在余下的旅途中便谈了些别的情况。
The result was not as goodas I expected, but I preferred to regard it as a challenge to myself, whoseprocess was the most important for me.
虽然结果不像我想象中的那么好,但是我宁愿把它当做一次对自己的挑战,过程对我来说才是最重要的。
Sometimes he was angry with me and called me a 'hard little thing ' or 'a cruel spirit ', but I preferred that to being called 'my darling '.
有时他生我的气,叫我“顽固的小东西”或者“残酷的精灵”,但我更愿听这个,而不愿听他叫我“我亲爱的”。
The result was not as good as I expected, but I preferred to regard it as a challenge to myself, whose process was the most important for me.
虽然结果不像我想象中的那么好,但是我宁愿把它当做一次对自己的挑战,过程对我来说才是最重要的。
When I was a kid, I preferred cold colors, like blue and yellow. But now I enjoy warm colors more. I think color preference varies as people age.
当我还是个孩子,我更喜欢冷色调,如蓝色和黄色。但现在我很喜欢暖色调。我觉得色彩偏好随着年龄而变化。
I used to prefer McCartney's writing to Lennon's but as I grew older I preferred the latter's edge, depth and social consciousness in his writing.
我曾经偏好麦卡尼的创作,但随著年龄的增长,我反而比较喜欢蓝侬尖锐、深沉与具备社会意识的作品风格。
I preferred to discuss the qualities of positive regard and therapist congruence, which together with empathy I hypothesized as promoting the therapeutic process.
我更愿意讨论积极关注和治疗师一致性的质量,我假设它们与共情一起会促进治疗过程。
In my limited testing, I preferred the PHP IDE Project plug-in because it felt better integrated to me, and the performance of the code intelligence features seemed snappier.
在我有限的测试中,我更喜欢PHPIDE项目插件,因为我感觉它集成得更好,而且代码智能特性的性能似乎更快捷。
I could have asked him if Marguerite was at home. But he might have replied that she wasn't, and I preferred to keep my doubts for another two minutes. While there was doubt there was hope.
我原来可以问他玛格·丽特是不是在家,但是他很可能给我一个否定的答复,而我宁愿多猜疑上几分钟,因为在猜疑的时候总还是存在一线希望。
I could have asked him if Marguerite was at home. But he might have replied that she wasn't, and I preferred to keep my doubts for another two minutes. While there was doubt there was hope.
我原来可以问他玛格·丽特是不是在家,但是他很可能给我一个否定的答复,而我宁愿多猜疑上几分钟,因为在猜疑的时候总还是存在一线希望。
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