preference
n. 偏爱，倾向；优先权
n.
偏爱；优先权；偏爱的事物；（债权人）受优先偿还的权利
变形
复数：preferences
双语释义
n.(名词)[C][U]较喜欢的东西,偏爱 liking for one thing rather than another
[U][C]优待,优惠,优先权 special favour or consideration shown to a person
英英释义
preference[ 'prefərəns ]
n.
a strong liking
"my own preference is for good literature"
同义词：penchantpredilectiontaste
a predisposition in favor of something
"his sexual preferences"
同义词：predilectionorientation
the right or chance to choose
同义词：druthers
grant of favor or advantage to one over another (especially to a country or countries in matters of international trade, such as levying duties)
词汇搭配
用作名词 (n.)
动词+～
demonstrate a preference for表现出对…的偏爱
形容词+～
decided preference明显的偏爱
special preference特殊的优惠
individual preference个人的偏爱
名词+～
color preference颜色的偏爱
trade preference贸易优惠
介词+～
through preference出于偏爱
to one's preference按自己的爱好
～+介词
preference for meat爱吃肉
preference in sth喜爱…
词组短语
preference for偏爱…
preference to sth优先
tax preference税收优惠
personal preference个人喜好
in preference to优先于……
consumer preference消费者偏好，消费偏爱
by preference最好，首先
sexual preference性取向；性偏好；性爱好
preference share优先股；红利先取股
time preference时间的优先选择
color preference色彩的嗜好；颜色爱好
margin of preference[经]优惠幅度；[经]优惠差额
liquidity preference[经]流动性偏好
同近义词辨析
election, preference, choice, alternative, selection, option这组词都有“选择”的意思，其区别是：
election强调目的和达到目的判断能力。
preference侧重因偏见、爱好或判断等而进行选择。
choice侧重指自由选择的权利或特权。
alternative指在相互排斥的两者之间作严格的选择，也可指在两者以上中进行选择。
selection指作广泛的选择，着重选择者的识别力或鉴赏力。
option着重特别给予的选择权利或权力，所选物常常相互排斥。
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
She has a preference for blue.
她特别喜欢蓝色。
It's entirely a matter of preference.
这完全是个见仁见智的问题。
A polar bear has a preference for cold weather.
北极熊喜欢寒冷的天气。
While selecting job applicants, we usually give preference to those with some experience.
在筛选求职者的过程中,我们通常优先考虑有一定经验的人。
Her preference in foods is omelets.
她喜爱的食物是煎蛋卷。
What is your preference, tea or coffee?
咖啡和茶,你最喜欢哪一样？
We've granted that country special trade preferences.
我们给了那个国家特殊的贸易优惠。
权威例句
Fuzzy Preference Modelling and Multicriteria Decision SupportFemale Preference Predates the Evolution of the Sword in Swordtail Fish
On the Elicitation of Preference for Alternative Therapies
The Preference for Self-Correction in the Organization of Repair in Conversation
A classification of hand preference by association analysis.
The estimation of a preference-based measure of health from the SF-36
Pollinator preference and the evolution of floral traits in monkeyflowers (Mimulus)
The codon preference plot: graphic analysis of protein coding sequences and prediction of gene expression.
Antecedents of B2C Channel Satisfaction and Preference: Validating e-Commerce Metrics
The Comparison of Usage and Availability Measurements for Evaluating Resource Preference
preference (n.)
mid-15c., "advancement in position or status;" 1650s as "act of prefering," from Middle French preference (14c., Modern French préférence), from Medieval Latin preferentia, from past participle stem of Latin praeferrere (see prefer). Sense of "that which one prefers" is from 1852.
1. Everyone will have their preference.
每个人都有自己的偏爱。
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2. At least, this is what psychologists tell us, and they should know, because they have been seriously studying the meaning of color preference④, as well as the effect that colors have on human beings.
至少，这是心理学家告诉我们的--心理学家应该是这方面的专家，因为他们一直在认认真真地研究色彩偏爱的意义以及各种色彩对人的不同影响。
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3. He reports on their preference for HTML e-mails.
他报告了用户对HTML电子邮件的偏爱。
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4. Anopheles mosquitoes breed in water and each species has its own breeding preference; for example some prefer shallow collections of fresh water, such as puddles, rice fields, and hoof prints.
按蚊在水中繁殖，每种按蚊有其各自偏爱的繁殖地点，例如有些喜欢在小水坑、稻田和动物踩踏后留下的泥潭等淡水蓄积之处滋生。
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5. In the most recent version of this experiment, newborn babies less than one week old show significantly greater preference for faces that adults judge to be attractive.
在这个实验的最新版本中，出生不到一周的婴儿就对被成人评定为漂亮的面孔表现出更大的偏爱。
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6. The authors of this study attribute this preference to a fear of infidelity on the part of the women – women prefer a handsome man that they aren’t going to have to share with other women.
这个研究的作者们把这种倾向归结于部分女人恐惧他们会对妻子不忠。女人青睐那些不打算将要和别的女人分享自己的帅哥。
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7. Of course, this is a ridiculous shift in preference.
当然，这个优先顺序的转变是可笑的。
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8. You can also select multiple compression algorithms, which are tried in order of preference.
您也可以选择多个压缩算法，按照优先次序尝试这些算法。
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9. The researchers say this could be due to a northward range shift in the mammal, a scarcity of the beast, or an increasing human preference for other prey species.
研究者说这有可能是由于哺乳动物向北部山脉移动、兽类短缺或是人类越来越偏爱其他的猎物种类造成的。
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10. For every should you come across, look for the preference underneath.
你每遇到一个应该，要寻找隐藏其下的喜好。
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11. But some analysts wonder about the unintended consequences of this preference.
但是一些分析家想知道这项优惠的意外的后果。
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12. You truly have no preference.
你真的没有任何偏好。
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13. The file only contains the header with the encoding setting from the user preference.
这个文件只包含带有根据用户首选设置的编码设置的标题。
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14. From there, you can use this preference to get the user name for the message sending code in Listing 10.
然后，您就可以为清单10 中的消息发送代码使用这个首选项来得到用户名了。
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15. In your preference page, you have two preferences.
在您的首选项页面中有两个首选项。
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16. “If females have a biological predisposition to favour colours such as pink, this preference should be evident regardless of experience of the acquisition of gender concepts, ” they said.
她们说：“如果女性是生理上倾向于喜欢粉红这类颜色，那么不管性别概念获取的经验如何，这种偏好都应该是明显的。”
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17. It is a matter of preference though - as long as its the same on client and server.
不过，这只是个人喜好的问题——只要在服务器端和客户端相同就可以了。
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18. But some preference could be given to those who had qualifications.
但我们可以优先考虑那些拥有资格证书的人。
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19. Either that attribute should not exist (my preference), or it must have a value.
要么该属性不应该存在（根据我的习惯），要么它必须有一个值。
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20. If you read his Pioneering Portfolio Management on the syllabus, he really has a preference for equities.
如果你阅读他的著作《开拓投资组合的管理》的摘要,他确实对股票有偏好。
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21. If you read his Pioneering Portfolio Management on the syllabus, he really has a preference for equities.
如果你阅读他的著作《开拓投资组合的管理》的摘要,他确实对股票有偏好。
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22. They’d much rather be successful than be knowledgeable, a preference that is often hard for engineers to understand.
他们更喜欢成功，而不是知识渊博，工程师们很难理解这种偏爱。
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23. He expressed his preference for the quarantine over the strike.
他表示赞成实行海上隔离，而不主张袭击。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
24. Had not the Peers too overwhelmingly expressed their preference for no change?
绝大多数上院议员不是也表示不喜欢换人吗？
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
25. Preference thresholds guide us in our user interface design by demonstrating that asking users for successively detailed decisions about a procedure is unnecessary.
偏好阈值证明，不断地向用户询问程序决策细节是不必要的，从而可以在用户界面设计中给我们指导。
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26. Any given activity may involve hundreds of decisions, but only a few of them are important. All the rest are insignificant. Software interfaces can use this idea of preference thresholds to simplify tasks for users.
任何特定的动作都可能与上百次的决策相关，但是其中只有很少是重要的，其余的都不重要，软件界面可以用偏好阈值来简化用户任务。
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27. A teacher should not show preference for any one of his pupils.
老师不应偏爱任何一个学生。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
28. Using preference thresholds, we can easily track which facilities of the application each user likes to adjust and which are set once and ignored.
使用偏好阈值，我们可以轻易地跟踪哪些程序功能是用户喜欢调整的，哪些是用户一旦设置好后就不会再改变的。
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29. This principle applies in a variety of situations. When items in a list need to be reordered, a user may want them ordered alphabetically, but he may also want them in order of personal preference; something no algorithm can offer.
这个原则被应用于多种情况下，当一个清单需要重新排列时，用户也许想按照字母表顺序排列，也有可能希望按照和个人的关系排列。
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30. If the program implements multiple Undo, it must maintain a stack of operations, the depth of which may be set by the user as an advanced preference.
如果程序实现多次撤销，则必须维护一个操作堆栈，堆栈的深度可以根据用户的偏好来设置。
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31. A program may be bold or timid, colorful or drab, but it should be so for a specific, goal-directed reason. Its manner shouldn’t result from the personal preference of its designer or programmer.
无论怎样都应该有一个之所以如此具体且目标导向的原因，其风格不应该任由设计者或者程序员的喜好来决定。
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