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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So he preferred the word corpuscularianism.

所以他更喜欢用微粒论这个词。

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He thought it too complicated and in any case he preferred walking.

他觉得开车太复杂，再者，他更喜欢走路。

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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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