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

• Respect the local etiquete. Modest clothing is often preferable to revealing shorts and tight-fitting tops.
  要尊重当地的礼节。朴素端庄的衣着往往比暴露的短裤和紧身上衣更合适。
• Does the crisis suggest that another fiscal policy model would have been preferable?
  这场危机是否表明了其它财政政策模式可能更为可取？
• As a short-term solution, the first alternative is clearly preferable, given the maturity of relational database technology.
  作为一个短期的解决办法，第一种选择显然是可取的，因为成熟的关系数据库技术。
• 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。
• 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。
• Yet this is not to argue that committed long-term ownership is always preferable.
  然而，这并不是说，有承诺的长期所有权总是可取的。
• But a clear timetable is preferable.
  但最好有个明确的时间表。
• 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。
• 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。