It is just after dawn and raining lightly, the kind of weather Macgregor's bowerbirds prefer in the mating season.

天刚刚破晓，下起小雨，正是冠园丁鸟繁殖时节求偶的理想天气。

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Other services like Diigo, for example, offer very similar services, however, and it remains to be seen which service users will prefer in the long run.

其他一些服务像Diigo也提供类似的功能，但是从长远来看，用户到底会选择使用哪种服务，这还要等等看。

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Old people prefer to stay in their own homes.

老年人喜欢待在自己家中。

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That is my problem with what you have done." Republicans cite recent public opinion polls that generally show Americans would prefer to try the alleged terrorists in military commissions, where the rules of evidence favor the prosecution.

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And my bet is when they chose the stickers they had a pretty good sense of why, of which ones the boys would prefer in those studies.

我猜是当研究人员选择挑选贴纸时,他们很清楚男孩们会在这些研究中,喜欢哪些贴纸

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Is there any particular reason that you prefer living in San Francisco to other places?

和其他城市相比，你喜欢住在旧金山有没有什么特别的理由？

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While the latter effort seems like a decent goal in competing against online retailers (some shoppers prefer the in-person customer service experience), it is unknown how Best Buy might prevent customers from showrooming.

FORBES: Best Buy's New Showrooming Defense Could Scare Off Legitimate Customers

Consumers, in short, are moving beyond from just barely accepting automated self-service to starting to prefer it in some cases.

FORBES: It's the Attack of the Sales Bots

Of course, we continually prefer living in the modern, complete with the odd pang of nostalgia.

FORBES: OMG the Web is Eating MY BRAIN!!! (Part 1)