我更喜欢思考和平而不是战争。

I prefer to think of peace not war.

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我更喜欢这件大衣，而不是那件。

I like this coat better than that one.

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我成为了一名教师是因为我更喜欢书籍和人而不是政治。

I became a teacher because I preferred books and people to politics.

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And they would prefer to hear French than to hear Russian.

他们更喜欢听到法语,而不是俄语

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You can do that, but we like to get the answer the way this gentleman described it, because we like to get an answer more readily than by doing the mundane work.

你可以那样做,但是我们喜欢,用这位同学所说的方法来得到结果,因为我们喜欢更简洁地获得结果,而不是通过繁琐的计算

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