He preferred the company of those who were intellectually inferior to himself.

他喜欢与那些智力不如他的人为伍。

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Charles Darwin had so many hobbies except that he preferred collecting coins and stamps.

查尔斯·达尔文除了喜欢收集硬币和邮票外，还有很多爱好。

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Even on holidays, he preferred doing something to doing nothing.

即使在假期里，他也宁愿干点什么事，而不愿什么都不干。

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He far preferred Rutherford to Thompson.

相比汤姆逊他更喜欢卢瑟福。

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He preferred portraits and landscapes, popular genres with collectors on both sides of the Atlantic.

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He confirmed his profession as a soldier and said he preferred to speak in Kinyarwanda.

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We'd liked to have discussed all this with him, but he preferred not to.

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