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

• 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。
• 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。
• Any principle is preferable to none.
  任何原则都比没原则好。
• This is the classic and preferable model of reform.
  这是经典的、更可取的改革模式。
• Similar hardware for the both systems is preferable.
  最好对两个系统使用类似的硬件。
• It's preferable to eat foods than to take medicinal tonics.
  药补不如食补。
• Open laboratory had promotion on the teaching and scientific research of inorganic nonmetal major, and procured preferable effect.
  开放式实验室对无机非金属材料专业的教学和科研起到了促进作用，取得了较好的效果。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。