1.prefer+名词
——Would you like meat or fish?
——I'd prefer meat,please.
2.prefer+动名词
Do you prefer cooling for yourself or eating in a restaurant?自己做饭还是喜欢下馆子?
—Do you like swimming?你喜欢游泳吗?
—Yes,but I prefer sailing.喜欢,但我更喜欢驾驶帆船.
3.prefer+不定式
Do you prefer to cook for yourself,or to eat in a restaurant?
I prefer to spend the weekend at home.我喜欢在家里度周末.
I would prefer to stay at home tonight.
She prefers to be alone.
4.Prefer sb.to do sth.
Their father prefers them to be home early.他们的父亲宁愿他们早点回家.
I thought you would prefer me not to knock.
5.prefer A to B
在本句型中,A与B是平行结构,可以是名词,也可以都是动名词.例如:
I prefer dogs to cats.在狗与猫之间我更喜欢狗.
Most people prefer trains to buses.
大多数人愿意坐火车而不愿坐汽车.
I prefer writing a term paper to taking an examination.
我宁愿写一篇学期论文也不愿参加考试.
I prefer staying at home to going out.
我觉得在家里比出去好.
Thousands of children nowadays prefer doing their homework to a background of pop-music to doing it in a quiet room.成千上万的孩子如今一边听流行音乐一边做作业,也不愿在安安静静的房间里做.
She has always preferred marking her own clothes rather than buying them in the shops.她向来喜欢自己做衣服,而不到商店里去买衣服.
6.Prefer+不定式+rather than+不定式
1)本句型中,第一个不定式前面要加to,第二个不定式前面以不加to居多.例如:He prefer to die rather than become traitor.他宁死也不做叛徒.
Older people often fear change.They know what they can do best.They prefer to repeat their successes rather than risk failure.年纪大的人常常怕变化.他们知道什么最拿手,宁愿把自己成功的经验再如法炮制也不愿冒失败的危险.
She preferred to sew rather than to knit.她喜欢缝纫而不喜欢编织.
2)rather than也可以置于句首:
Rather than buy a car of his own,he prefers to rent one.
3)than后也可用动名词:
I prefer to stay at home rather than go/going to see a film.我觉得与其去看电影倒不如待在家里.
I would prefer to spend the weekend at home rather than drive/driving all the way to your mother's.我觉得与其开车跑那么远的路到你母亲那里度周末,倒不如在家里过更好些.
4)prefer…rather than中的rather也可以移到第一个不定式之前(prefer rather…than),这种用法多见于书面语.例如:He preferred rather to take the whole blame himself than to allow it to fall on the innocent.他宁可自己承担全部责任而不愿让无辜的人受到连累.
5)prefer to do A rather than do B意义相同,试比较:Joe prefers skating to skiing.
Joe prefer to skate rather than ski.
Bill preferred playing soccer to swimming.
Bill preferred to play soccer rather than swim.
He preferred rating a car to having one of his own.
He prefers to rent a car rather than to have one of his own.他宁愿租车也不愿买车.
6)用prefer…rather than代替prefer…to连接名词的形式偶尔也可见到.如:Mr.Brunner prefers chemistry rather than physics.
有人认为两者的区别是:prefer…to表示一般的倾向,prefer…rather than则表示在某种具体场合的选择.如:What shall we have to drink,port or sherry?我们喝什么呢,葡萄酒还是雪利酒?
I should prefer port rather than sherry.我宁愿喝葡萄酒而不喝雪利酒.
7)prefer+that从句
Would you prefer that I come on Monday instead of on Tuesday?你宁愿让我星期一来而不是星期二来吗?
I prefer that someone else should do this.我觉得还是让别人来做这件事比较好.
通过以上的学习,我们了解了prefer的各种用法,以及perfer相关的词组.