I always felt like I couldn't do enough to make him happy. I think he preferred my brother.

可我觉得不管做多少事情，总是难以让他高兴起来。

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Temperamentally, like Hawthorne, he preferred a plot out of the past.

在气质上他像霍桑，喜欢陈年往事。

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He would have preferred to be on good term with both his wife and his mother, but the effort of pleasing one without offending the other was like steering between Scylla and Charybdis.

他本愿和妻子与母亲都处好关系，但要讨好一方而不得罪另一方简直就如同驾船在斯库拉和卡律布狄斯之间航行， 两面为难。

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Like Tristram Shandy, he preferred the apparently random and open-minded route.

ECONOMIST: Barry Blumberg

In the bitter phrase of Jean-Paul Sartre, with whom he sparred for years, he preferred to view men like ants.

ECONOMIST: Claude L��vi-Strauss

The first choice for the lead was Jackie Chan himself, but he preferred to keep making films like Rush Hour.

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