例文・使い方で印象づける「preferred」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...After a few moments, he always found that he preferred to rest on the divan and converse with his guest... 
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
... and preferred that he should be safe...
Baroness Orczy 「The Scarlet Pimpernel」
...He had fixed on that character to follow, though hewould have preferred Mr Valiant-for-Truth if he had thought himself goodenough...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...For my part, and I speak as I think, I should have preferred to have run the risk of being devoured alive by some wild animal than to have been listened to and overheard...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
...Now Tarzan preferred to bait the blacks in as theatric a manner as hisfertile imagination could evolve...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Jungle Tales of Tarzan」
... They all pulled chairs closely round the fire, except Blakeney, who preferred to stand...
Baroness Orczy 「El Dorado」
...The Kaffirs in the huts at Blaauwildebeestefontein were mostlyChristians, and quiet, decent fellows, who farmed their little gardens,and certainly preferred me to Japp...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
...But he still preferred that she should tell him, and his lips shut tight...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...Itwas the plain duty of a Revolution based upon "Liberty" totake steps toward the abolition of slavery: it preferred promisesto straightforward action...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America」
...I liked the frank and manly bearing of these men, and, instead of sitting in the wagon, preferred a seat in one of the canoes...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
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