prefer用作动词,意为“更喜欢,(两者中)宁愿选择(其中之一)”。我们往往在 prefer后面用两个-ing分词,来表示喜欢一项活动胜过另一项活动,
第二个词可以用to或者 rather than引出。例如
She prefers singing to acting.她愿意唱歌而不愿演戏。
I prefer reading books rather than watching TV.我宁愿看书而不是看电视。
He prefers cooking for himself to dining out.他愿意自己做饭不愿下馆。
prefer后面也可以跟动词不定式,这种用法在 would prefer后面很常见，在这种情况下, rather than后面既可以跟不带to的动词不定式,也可以用-ing分词。例如下面几个句子。
I prefer to stay home rather than go/going to the movie.
比起看电影，我更喜欢宅在家里。
Aside from abnormally lazy people, there would be very few who would prefer to do nothing rather than work.
除了那些懒得出奇的人之外,很少人会愿意无所事事而不愿工作。
We would prefer to reschedule the meeting for next week ratherthan having it today.
我们更愿意把会议改到下星期开而不是今天就开。
