Whether you choose a noun or a verb is a matter of preference, but it is recommended that you stick to one form instead of using both.

选择名词还是动词取决于个人偏好，但建议仅仅使用一种形式，而不是同时使用二者。

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True to form, the control group preferred their own race and gender. The children with Williams syndrome, however, had no racial preference—although they still discriminated by gender.

对照组的孩子们一如既往地偏爱和自己同一种族、同一性别的人，而威廉斯综合症患儿尽管仍有性别偏好，但却没有种族偏好。

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You can also extend the Preferences class to form a MessagingPreferences class, which will include messaging preference for internal users.

也可以扩展preferences类，形成messagingpreferences类，用它包含针对内部用户的消息传递选项。

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About three-quarters of the government's investment announced this week will be in the form of preference shares.

ECONOMIST: Money for nothing

To be classified as having a preference for a particular form of alcohol, a subject had to report that he drank more than half of his alcohol in this form.

ECONOMIST: Alcohol and health