Airlines would prefer to update rather than retrain crews.

航空公司宁愿增添新机组人员而不愿对老的机组人员进行再培训。

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I would prefer not to sell it, rather than be humiliated by you.

我宁愿不卖，也不愿被你羞辱。

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It seems, though, that people prefer not to postpone their demand. They would rather spend their incomes right away.

可是，人们似乎不愿推迟他们的需求，宁愿将其收入立刻花费掉。

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So Captain America needed to be someone we could all believe Robert Downey, Jr. would respect and defer to, and someone the God of Thunder would prefer to follow rather than lead.

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That's not to say he would prefer to chase the lead rather than shoulder the pressure of being in front.

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Also, Microsoft decided that people would prefer to rent rather than buy its software.

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