After only 15 hours, they can distinguish their mother's voice and prefer it to that of strangers.

仅仅15小时之后，他们便可以分辨母亲和陌生人的声音，并更喜欢前者。

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"I prefer take-home essays because it is then really about the writing, so you have time to edit and do more research," says Elizabeth Dresser, a junior at Barnard.

巴纳德学院的大三学生伊丽莎白·德雷瑟说：“我更喜欢可以回家写的论文，因为那才是真正关乎写作的，那样才有时间去编辑文字，做更多研究。”

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It is reported that more and more people prefer to buy organic food even though it is more expensive.

据报道，越来越多人喜欢购买有机食品，尽管它们更贵些。

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That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.

有些读者认为,对基督的信仰是关乎生死的大事,这对于那些对基督教,不以为然的人是一个障碍。

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If whatever is good is truly just whatever people prefer, it's truly relative and there's no objective definition, then there will be some society where people prefer Simpsons more.

如果人们偏好的就是好的，只是相对而言，没有客观定义，那么就是会有些人群更喜欢《辛普森一家》

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I will be also making them available at Allegra for people who would like to just purchase them already printed out so you don't do it yourself, but I know some people really prefer to work online--and certainly for the first week of reading, you can get started because it is online.I don't think things will be available at Allegra's until probably tomorrow afternoon.

我也同样会让这些书的纸质版,能够出现在学校书店这样喜欢读纸质版的同学,就不用到处去买了，但我知道有一些学生更喜欢,在网上阅读，当然第一周的阅读材料都已经放在，放在网上了你们可以开始阅读，所有的阅读材料,在明天下午后都能在学校书店里买到。

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Likewise, many management teams that have worked with PE owners have enjoyed the experience and prefer it to operating under public ownership.

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In fact, the best umpires usually go unnoticed and they prefer it that way.

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If anything, a clever pigeon would associate the red button with less work, and might prefer it.

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