I'd prefer to pay regularly in small amounts, rather than have a large amount to pay in one go.
我宁愿定期小额付款，也不愿一次性大额支付。
More than 90% of young Chinese buyers would prefer to buy home appliance brands, according to the study.
调查显示，超过90%的中国年轻买家更愿意购买一些家电品牌。
Businessmen prefer to write e-mails to communicate with each other rather than make phone calls.
商人们更喜欢写电子邮件来相互沟通，而不是打电话。
Unsecured creditors who hold CDSs might prefer default to a lengthy restructuring: to them, the insurance policy is worth more than the house.
拥有信用违约互换的无担保的债权人宁愿看到违约也不想看到漫长的重组：对他们来说，保险单比房屋更值钱。
Working in an office is less glamorous than going to hospitals, but I prefer to work at alleviating the suffering of my people.
办公室的工作自然没有在医院工作那么独特，但是我也宁愿减轻我人民的痛苦。
They are more avid news consumers than those without tablets (see chart), and for long articles they prefer their tablets both to ordinary computers and (remarkably) to print.
这些人比那些没有平板电脑的人更热衷于看新闻，而且当出现长篇文章的时候，他们更喜欢用平板，而不愿在电脑特别是报刊上阅读。
Anne Milton is more than welcome to call me fat – I prefer it to obese, in fact.
我能够接受别人说我胖子——其实我更愿意人们称之为肥胖者。
While better than the other approach, many still consider this to be risky and prefer to have no administrative function in the DMZ.
这看似是一种比较好的方法，但是许多人仍然认为这有风险，最好在DMZ中根本没有管理功能。
In fact, research shows that most people prefer to listen to voiced laughter more than unvoiced.
事实上，研究表明，大多数人更喜欢听到有声的笑而不是无声的笑。
Doctors always prefer to get soldiers back to their units rather than out of theater, and not everyone who is treated appears on the record.
医生总是更偏向于将士兵送回编队，而不是将他们送离战区。而且，并不是每一个接受治疗的士兵会存档。
An alternate method of writing an adapter - and one that some prefer - is to implement an interface to adapt behavior, rather than extending an object.
编写适配器的替代方法——并且是推荐方法——是实现一个接口来修改行为，而不是扩展对象。
Kate has said she'd prefer to make her way to the ceremony by car rather than in the traditional, Cinderellaesque "glass coach," though she will depart by carriage.
凯特曾经说过她宁愿选择坐小轿车的方式而不是乘坐传统的灰姑娘的玻璃马车，尽管她将乘坐四轮马车起程。
I prefer going after what I want rather than waiting for it to come to me.
对于我想要的东西，我更愿意去追求而不是干坐着等。
Web surfers like to socialise while they browse the Internet, but many prefer to do so only with their friends rather than with perfect strangers.
在网上冲浪的人喜欢一边浏览网页一边与人交流，但许多人更倾向于与他们的朋友而非完全陌生的人交流。
Conservative clients prefer to go to the company that built the software, rather than a third party, so you can eat into your ecosystem whenever you have a revenue short-fall.
保守的客户都会喜欢选用制造软件的公司的服务，而不是第三方的。所以如果你的收入有所下降，你还可以通过前期建立的生态系统来获利。
Employment has also increased slightly, although firms generally prefer to increase overtime than to hire new staff.
就业率也有轻微增长，尽管公司更喜欢让员工加班而不愿意聘用新的员工。
Economists prefer carbon prices, especially those set by taxes rather than cap-and-trade systems, which are more vulnerable to capture by the polluters they are supposed to penalise.
经济学家也青睐碳排放价格方案，尤其是通过赋税方式而非“总量管制和交易”体系，这种系统对那些想通过缴纳罚金而制造污染的人十分脆弱。
Because you have already been screened and this is a sign that the interviewer sees your potential and would rather prefer to employ you for the job than to reject you.
因为你已经被筛选出来，这就说明面试你的人看到了你的潜力，他更倾向于录用你而不是拒绝你。
I don't want to break the euphoria amongst the fans, but more than favourites I prefer to say that Spain are contenders with high hopes.
我不想破坏某些球迷的自我陶醉，但与其说是热门，不如说，西班牙是一支满怀希望的竞争者。
As a consequence, most people prefer to stay at home, watching TV, rather than go out to the cinema, which wastes both time and money.
因此，许多人宁愿呆在家里看电视，而不愿出去看电影，因为看电影既费时又费钱。
Many participants prefer the quality of writing on the Net to book writing because Net-writing is of a conversational peer-to-peer style, frank and communicative, rather than precise and overwritten.
许多参与者之所以喜欢网上写作而非写书，是因为网上写作采用的是对等的对话方式，是因为它的无拘无束、畅所欲言，而不是因为它的一丝不苟、矫揉造作。
A successful multinational may be profitable enough to be able to afford wage increases, and may prefer to take wage increases on the chin rather than move its business around.
一家成功的跨国企业的盈利能力或许足以承担薪水上涨，而且或许宁愿接受加薪要求而不愿将业务转移至别处。
In theory house prices can rise faster than GDP for a while if citizens decide to devote more of their incomes to housing services (for example, they may prefer a bigger flat to a bigger car).
理论上讲，如果居民把收入更多地投入房地产市场（例如购买更大的公寓而不是购买更大的轿车），那么房价增速将暂时超过GDP增速。
You’d prefer to continue gracefully skating your perfect figure eights until the end of time, but you know there’s more to this creative life than that.
但是要知道，在富有创造性的生活中，有比那样单调地生活更多的事情可做。
You don't have to have a visual impairment to prefer to receive some kinds of information aurally rather than visually.
并不是因为有视觉障碍才更需要通过听觉而不是视觉来获取信息。
You don't have to have a visual impairment to prefer to receive some kinds of information aurally rather than visually.
并不是因为有视觉障碍才更需要通过听觉而不是视觉来获取信息。
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