Where two or more persons offer to pay a bill for the honour of different parties, the person whose payment will discharge most parties to the bill shall have the preference .

如两名或以上人士愿意为维护不同当事人之信誉而支付汇票，则凡付款能解除最多数当事人对汇票之责任之人士，应享有优先权。

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So let's look at the effect this preference can have by looking at some examples.

让我们通过一些例子来看看这个偏好会有什么影响。

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The continentals have never understood our preference for warm beer.

欧洲大陆人根本不理解我们为什么喜欢喝温啤酒。

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So the fact is those lab animals have a hard-wired preference for foods that are high in fat and high in sugar, primarily because of the energy density that those foods bring to one, and then the variety is important because you get a mix of nutrients.

事实上 实验动物对高脂肪高糖的食物,有着强烈的偏爱,而这种爱基于,该类食物能给我们提供高能量,多样性很重要,因为你能摄取多种营养

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So a number of you, even if the price was just a tiny bit different might have a preference for one rather than the other, so without getting in trouble by putting the camera on you, how many of you would have a preference, if the prices were essentially the same how many of you would have a strict preference for Pepsi?

那么你们中的很多人,尽管价格只有一点点不同,也许还是倾向于其中一个产品,不让你们上镜头而招来麻烦,你们谁会有倾向,如果价格差不多,谁会倾向选择百事可乐

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The results of these studies have led researchers to believe that the monkeys have a preference for symmetry just as humans do.

ECONOMIST: Health indicators

Does the White House have a preference in terms of which baseline the committee should use?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

To the bank's bosses, this would have made the positions in Japanese preference shares seem far more profitable than they were.

ECONOMIST: Blind faith