例文・使い方で印象づける「preference」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...The villagers invaded by preference the best coaches, believing that they would there find more room... 
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...When Pan-at-lee stepped over the edge of the cliff above Kor-ul-lul sheexpected to be dashed to instant death upon the rocks below; but shehad chosen this in preference to the rending fangs of JA...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Terrible」
...They always appearedto be a very honest discreet sort of people, and never attempted toimpose on me; I therefore liked them, and ever after chose to dealwith them in preference to any others...
Olaudah Equiano 「The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African」
...A chief's brother inherits in preference to his son...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...Often the preference of the pagazis won the day, when their employers were timid, irresolute men, like Sheikh Hamed...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...There is a physical reason for the preference...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1」
...While we cooked the ducks, he roasted a piece of the snake’s flesh at the fire, and ate it in preference to them...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
... People had to have lawyers, and they gaveme their business in preference to the carpet-baggers...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The House Behind the Cedars」
...Every class, no matter how worthless they might be, would be allowed to rent a house in preference to a colored man...
Austin Steward 「Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman」
...(3) The fatal preference on the part of hunters generally, both white and red, for the robe and flesh of the cow over that furnished by thebull...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
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