Prefer
常见意思是“宁可”“宁愿(选择)”“比较喜欢”等。
1.Prefer sth / doingDo you like French? Yes, but I prefer English.注:prefer 是“比较喜欢”的意思,即like better,因此不能再与better, more 等比较级词语连用。
2.Prefer doing A to doing B
Even on holiday Mr. Wang preferred reading to doing nothing.
注:在这种结构中,to 为介词,而不是不定式符号,故其后应当接动名词形式,决不能接动词原形。另外,为了保持前后对应关系,prefer后面也应当接动名词形式。
3.Prefer to do sth.
They prefer to spend the rest of the morning wandering in the streets.
4. Prefer to do……rather than doThese workers preferred to work extra hours at night rather than leave the work until the next week.
注:这种结构中的rather than 可以置于句首.
Eg: Rather than go on holiday to the seaside I prefer to work days and go to school nights.
5.Prefer sb. to do sth
I prefer you to spare some time to come to our art exhibition next week.
6.Prefer + that-clause
在that宾语从句中,应当用虚拟语气“should + 动词原形”,其中,should 可疑省略。
We prefer that each new student take a science course.
我们希望每位新生修一门理科课程。
Prefer sth/sb + adj
I prefer the door open.我喜欢开着门。
参考资料:百度文库