Anything was preferable to the tense atmosphere at home.
什么都比家里的紧张气氛好。
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。
It would be preferable to employ two people, not one.
雇请两个人比雇请一个更好。
1.更可取的;更好的 (to);略胜一筹的
1.more appropriate or useful than something else
1.No doubt I shall rue my caution upon my deathbed, but after a long day in the saddle, a warm room sounds preferable to me.
我临终卧床之时，肯定会后悔今日不该如此谨慎的，不过骑了一整天马，我更想呆在暖和的房间里。
2.As a result, when comparable transactions are available, this method is often preferable.
因此，如果可以找到适用的可比非受控交易，通常是优先选择本方法。
3.It is preferable to use ground water that has passed through the natural filter of the soil than to collect water from the surface.
与收集地表水相比，使用通过土壤天然过滤的地下水更好。
4.is preferable to: " If you got to bed earlier, you would feel differently. "
就比“如果你早点睡觉，感觉就会不一样！”更可取。
5.Thus, iterating over the elements in a list is typically preferable to indexing through it if the caller does not know the implementation.
因此如果调用者不了解实现方式，通常应该遍历列表元素，这比指定下标位置更可取。
6.Such a decision might well have been preferable for me personally. But I felt I had no right to 'abandon the party'.
这样的决定对我个人而言可能更好，但我觉得我没有权利去‘抛弃苏共’。
7.Taking into account the cost of transport, such a house would be preferable to leave the double - poor households are living in closer.
考虑到交通费用，这种房子最好能离双特困户现居住地比较近。
8.The computer simulation result indicated that this method has preferable control precision for a batch of same kind of the axis work-piece.
计算机仿真结果表明，对于批量磨削加工相同轴类零件的磨床，该方法具有较高的控制精度。
9.For others, it is preferable to work up to the most severe trauma gradually or by taking the trauma one piece at a time (desensitization).
对于其它多数情况，最好是逐渐深入到最严重的创伤部分，或是每次谈论创伤的一小部分（脱敏疗法）。
10.He did not have to tell the troll everything, and it was certainly preferable to have a companion versed in woodcraft.
他不用将所有的事情都告诉这个矮人，而且，能有这样一个精通森林生存知识的人同路，当然是件很好的事情。