preferable

英 [ˈprefrəbl]

美 [ˈprefrəbl]

adj.  较适合; 更可取

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牛津词典

adj.

• 较适合；更可取
  more attractive or more suitable; to be preferred to sth
  1. Anything was preferable to the tense atmosphere at home.
     什么都比家里的紧张气氛好。
  2. He finds country life infinitely preferable to living in the city.
     他觉得乡村生活比都市生活称心得多。
  3. It would be preferable to employ two people, not one.
     雇请两个人比雇请一个更好。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 更好的；更可取的；更合适的
  If you say that one thing ispreferable toanother, you mean that it is more desirable or suitable.
  1. A big earthquake a long way off is preferable to a smaller one nearby...
     远处发生大地震总比在附近发生小地震好。
  2. The hazards of the theatre seemed preferable to joining the family paint business...
     经营剧院的风险似乎比加入家族涂料产业的风险要小一些。
  3. Was an evening with Peter in their company preferable to being left at home alone?
     晚上和彼得在他们的公司呆着是不是比一个人留在家里好一些？

英英释义

adj

• more desirable than another
  1. coffee is preferable to tea
  2. Danny's preferred name is `Dan'
  Synonym:preferred

双语例句

• The hazards of the theatre seemed preferable to joining the family paint business
  经营剧院的风险似乎比加入家族涂料产业的风险要小一些。
• I have found that the latter solution is often preferable.
  我发现后一种解决方案通常更好一些。
• This option is preferable if you want to create views and view data in different ways.
  如果想要以不同方式创建视图和视图数据，这个选项更可取。
• It's preferable to eat foods than to take medicinal tonics.
  药补不如食补。
• An application of this method for selection of a preferable solution within the multiple solutions is demonstrated.
  论证了应用本方法对存在无数的多个解的情况下如何解决选择最喜好解的问题。
• In these circumstances, it is preferable to implement a more manageable approach.
  在这些情况下，最好实现一种更具可管理性的方法。
• It has been showed that its forecasting precision is preferable to the-conventional soft-sensing model by simulating study.
  仿真研究结果表明：具有多步记忆的软测量模型其预测精度高于常规软测量模型。
• Any principle is preferable to none.
  任何原则都比没原则好。
• 228. I prefer the preferable preference you referred to in the reference books.
  228.我更喜欢你在参考书中提到的那个更可取的优先权。
• Systems thinking is preferable to analytical thinking in managing change and solving problems.
  系统的思考是指在管理变革和解决问题中的分析思考过程。