She said nothing, preferring instead to save her comments till later.

她什么也没说，而是想稍后再作评论。

Although rich, Xu avoided comfortable travel, preferring to go almost everywhere on foot.

尽管很富有，徐却避免舒适的旅行，宁愿徒步去几乎所有的地方。

We sat at the dinner table in silence, preferring that to speaking in a difficult language.

我们坐在餐桌旁沉默不语，宁愿那样也不愿使用一种难懂的语言交流。

She exerted an iron hold on the culture, preferring Beethoven's Sixth Symphony to his triumphalist Fifth, disliking Respighi's "Pines of Rome".

她强硬要控制文化方面的事业，喜欢贝多芬的第六交响曲，不喜欢雷斯庇基的《罗马的松树》。

Preferring a smartphone to a child.

更希望给孩子一台智能手机。

Preferring unidirectional to bidirectional.

单向关联优先于双向关联。

I freely admit to preferring this be the case.

我坦率地承认宁愿如此。

THE British are notorious for preferring pets to people.

英国人以喜爱宠物甚于人而声名狼藉。

Another reason for preferring Ruby is the ability to create DSLs.

另一个偏爱Ruby的原因是可以创建DSL。

I can't recall hearing a positive reaction to a white guy preferring Asian women.

我记不得听到过哪怕一次对白人男性偏爱亚裔女性的积极反应。

A good salesperson won't do this, preferring to build a relationship instead.

一个好的售货员不会这么做，他们倾向于与你之间建立一种关系。

He is rarely seen in public, preferring the comfort of his farm in the countryside.

他很少公开露面，而更喜欢他在乡下的农场的舒适。

They failed to minimize properly, preferring to dumbly blink when I clicked on them.

在我点击的时候它们没有正常缩小，而是不断乱闪。

The researchers then gave DHA to alcohol-preferring rats and noted a similar effect.

研究人员在一些对酒精上瘾的老鼠身上实验了DHA的作用，并取得了类似的效果。

In contrast, the French shun construction toys, preferring the world of the imagination.

相反，法国人不喜欢建造型玩具，而是喜欢激发想象的玩具。

We won't use this feature, preferring instead to keep things simple with one value per key.

我们不会使用这个特性，为了保持简单对每个键使用一个值。

The young men seem to be preferring some request which the elder ones are indisposed to grant.

年轻人似乎想提出某种年纪大的人不愿答应的要求。

She also selects buyers carefully, preferring a patron who is willing to donate works to a museum.

如果对方能愿意将作品捐给博物馆，那就是她心仪的买主了。

But many rejected natural selection, preferring other kinds of mechanisms to drive evolutionary change.

但是，许多人拒绝自然选择理论，他们更喜欢驱使生物演化式变化的其他各种机制。

The Greens themselves might balk, perhaps preferring a “Jamaica” coalition with the CDU and FDP instead.

但绿党自身可能犹豫不前，或许更期望与基民盟和自民党结成黄绿联盟。

The team stopped spending, preferring to save salary-cap space for the dazzling free-agent class of 2010.

球队开始节省开支，腾出薪金空间，一切只为了2010年的自由球员市场。

Goldman sees itself as “long-term greedy”, preferring to forgo profit today rather than to alienate a client.

高盛将自己定义为渴望长期利益者，宁肯放弃一时利益，也不愿疏远一个客户。

Sometimes they choose their victims based on physical condition, preferring young, old, sick or injured prey.

有时它们依据身体状况选择其牺牲物，更倾向于幼小的，年老的，生病或受伤的猎物。

The country's currency, the dong, is not convertible and people do not trust it, preferring us dollars or gold.

这个国家的货币，越南盾，是不可兑换的，而越南人民也不相信它，他们更喜欢美元或者黄金。

Lead dioxide, on the other hand, is highly electronegative, preferring to absorb electrons in chemical reactions.

而另一方面，二氧化铅是电负性物质，在化学反应中更喜欢吸收电子。

The clinic itself sits in a poor neighbourhood where few employees live, preferring to drive in from the suburbs.

诊所的周围就是贫民区，雇员极少居住附近，大多更宁愿从郊区驾车上班。