словарь английский - английский

prefer на английском языке:

1. To do

What are you planning to do now?

You need to do it.

to do the report

I like to do cleaning in the cellar.

Stop telling me what to do.

Английский слово "prefer«(To do) встречается в наборах:

verb patterns

2. to like or want someone or something more than someone or something else

Английский слово "prefer«(to like or want someone or something more than someone or something else) встречается в наборах:

3. favour

I'll recommend him as chairman, whether you are in favour of it or not.

I need a favour

When in doubt, in favour of the accused.

I'm also in favour so it's three to one. And thus your objection is overruled.

Er, well, I'd like to take a vote. Would people in favour of Mr Ogawa's proposition please raise their hands.

I am in favour of your proposal.

My father isn't really in favour of our marriage, because John still hasn't got a job.

Most students agree with the proposal, and made a list of arguments in favour of it.

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

Judge Hilary decided in Anthony's favour, and so he fined instead of imprisoned

She always felt that her parents favoured her brother.

Lucy tended to favour blue blouses because they matched her blue eyes.

He made so bold as to ask the king a favour.

In the survey, a majority of people favoured higher taxes and better public services over tax cuts.

There is a strong feeling in favour of cowardly and prudential proverbs.

4. prefer

I prefer coffee.

As a rule, I prefer people who deal with matters of this kind directly with those involved.

Westerners, in general, prefer to avoid such topics unless the other person brings them up.

I think I prefer this room as it was, before we decorated it.

I prefer traditional characters. Due to the abundance of reading materials in simplified characters, I can recognize many of them too.

Fifty-two per cent of British women prefer chocolate to sex.

I happen to prefer champagne to ditchwater, but there is no reason to suppose that the cosmos does.

The reason I prefer to go to Japan is that the people in Japan are hardworking and have honest personalities.

Japanese seem to prefer picking a marriage partner as much like themselves as possible, finding a job that provides security and slow but steady advancement, and putting money in the bank.

Of all the men that I dislike, my husband is certainly the one that I prefer.

It may not appeal to some, but I prefer to remain a salaried man; I don't have to worry so much about making both ends meet.

Whenever I translate something from English into Spanish, I prefer to use the familiar "tú" instead of the formal "usted".

So, now. What Disney character do you prefer? I prefer Minnie Mouse, and you? Prefer means to like better.

There have been a lot of clothes lately that fit tightly and I don't like it. I prefer clothes with a loose design.

Английский слово "prefer«(prefer) встречается в наборах:

101 - 200 verbos

5. preferred

He preferred studying at night.

When she was young, she preferred coffee to Japanese tea.

Perhaps you would have preferred a French dish.

I worked hard to get into my preferred school.

We told our bus guide that we preferred to go shopping.

Tennis is my preferred sport.

For other test materials 80 % ethanol/water is preferred for induction and acetone for challenge.

It was so lovely a day that I preferred to walk.

Was your mock exam score this time within the pass range for your preferred school?

I preferred baseball to football in my childhood.

I preferred wearing my Hawaiian T-shirt and green shorts to be cool and different, but I quickly got used to the white shirt and black slacks.

I didn't want to go; I preferred to stay home, enjoying my solitude.

6. prefer playing

7. to choose

I can't decide which one to choose.

We need to economise so I'm going to choose one of the cheap airlines.

to choose the candidate

8. gerund

Английский слово "prefer«(gerund) встречается в наборах:

generous infinitive

9. doing

I'm doing fine.

I considered doing something like blocking edits based on a blacklist.

For the moment there's nothing in particular I need to be doing.

Rather than doing any good, the rain did a great deal of harm to the crop.

He writes a daily journal, and that inspired me to try doing the same thing, but in English.

Politicians in Japan sometimes get away with doing illegal things.

When we started out designing web pages, we were the only ones doing it in this part of the country.

They keep up their spirits by doing aerobics.

If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

Not doing one's work properly may be worse than not doing it at all.

The work I'm doing now requires originality.

They knew that doing their work cheerfully is the only way to make routine work bearable.

Tom isn't your average guy. He doesn't like things most guys like and he doesn't like to do things most men enjoy doing.

I thought doing this would be easy, but we've been working all day and we're still not finished.

He's supposed to be living in Nagano. What's he doing at Tokyo station?

10. prefer sb to do

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