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prefer的用法讲解 rather的用法讲解

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prefer用法详解归纳
1.prefer+名词
　　——Would you like meat or fish?
　　——I'd prefer
meat,please.
　　2.prefer+动名词
　　Do you prefer cooling for yourself or eating
in a restaurant?自己做饭还是喜欢下馆子?
　　—Do you like swimming?你喜欢游泳吗?
　　—Yes, but I
prefer sailing.喜欢,但我更喜欢驾驶帆船.
　　3.prefer+不定式
　　Do you prefer to cook for
yourself, or to eat in a restaurant?
　　I prefer to spend the weekend at
home.我喜欢在家里度周末.
　　I would prefer to stay at home tonight.
　　She prefers to
be alone.
　　4.Prefer sb. to do sth.
　　Their father prefers them to be home
early.他们的父亲宁愿他们早点回家.
　　I thought you would prefer me not to
knock.
　　5.prefer A to B
　　在本句型中,A与B是平行结构,可以是名词,也可以都是动名词.例如：
　　I prefer
dogs to cats.在狗与猫之间我更喜欢狗.
　　Most people prefer trains to
buses.
　　大多数人愿意坐火车而不愿坐汽车.
　　I prefer writing a term paper to taking an
examination.
　　我宁愿写一篇学期论文也不愿参加考试.
　　I prefer staying at home to going
out.
　　我觉得在家里比出去好.
　　Thousands of children nowadays prefer doing their
homework to a background of pop-music to doing it in a quiet
room.成千上万的孩子如今一边听流行音乐一边做作业,也不愿在安安静静的房间里做.
　　She has always preferred marking
her own clothes rather than buying them in the
shops.她向来喜欢自己做衣服,而不到商店里去买衣服.
　　6.Prefer+不定式+rather
than+不定式
　　1)本句型中,第一个不定式前面要加to,第二个不定式前面以不加to居多.例如： He prefer to die rather
than become traitor.他宁死也不做叛徒.
　　Older people often fear change. They know
what they can do best. They prefer to repeat their successes rather than risk
failure.年纪大的人常常怕变化.他们知道什么最拿手,宁愿把自己成功的经验再如法炮制也不愿冒失败的危险.
　　She preferred to sew
rather than to knit.她喜欢缝纫而不喜欢编织.
　　2)rather than也可以置于句首：
　　Rather than buy
a car of his own, he prefers to rent one.
　　3)than后也可用动名词：
　　I prefer to
stay at home rather than go/going to see a film.我觉得与其去看电影倒不如待在家里.
　　I would
prefer to spend the weekend at home rather than drive/driving all the way to
your mother's.我觉得与其开车跑那么远的路到你母亲那里度周末,倒不如在家里过更好些.
　　4)prefer…rather
than中的rather也可以移到第一个不定式之前(prefer rather…than),这种用法多见于书面语.例如：He preferred rather
to take the whole blame himself than to allow it to fall on the innocent.
他宁可自己承担全部责任而不愿让无辜的人受到连累.
　　5)prefer to do A rather than do B意义相同,试比较：Joe
prefers skating to skiing.
　　Joe prefer to skate rather than ski.
　　Bill
preferred playing soccer to swimming.
　　Bill preferred to play soccer rather
than swim.
　　He preferred rating a car to having one of his own.
　　He
prefers to rent a car rather than to have one of his
own.他宁愿租车也不愿买车.
　　6)用prefer…rather than代替prefer…to连接名词的形式偶尔也可见到.如：Mr. Brunner
prefers chemistry rather than
physics.
　　有人认为两者的区别是：prefer…to表示一般的倾向,prefer…rather than则表示在某种具体场合的选择.如：What
shall we have to drink,port or sherry?我们喝什么呢,葡萄酒还是雪利酒?
　　I should prefer port
rather than sherry.我宁愿喝葡萄酒而不喝雪利酒.
　　7)prefer+that从句
　　Would you prefer
that I come on Monday instead of on Tuesday?你宁愿让我星期一来而不是星期二来吗?
　　I prefer
that someone else should do this.我觉得还是让别人来做这件事比较好.
rather的用法讲解

rather
than表示“与其……倒不如……”,后者表示“更……比起……”,
He depends on you rather than on me.
他依赖你胜过依赖我.
在rather加形容词再加名词的结构中,冠词a置于rather前后都可以,如a rather
big dog和rather a big dog（一只相当大的狗）两种表达都可以；
had rather属于习惯用语,表示“宁愿,宁可”,主语短语中必须用had,不可以改成have,且一般其后面接不含to的不定式.
I had rather stay with John than with Charles.
比起查尔斯我宁可和约翰呆一起.
had/would rather后一般接不含that所引导的从句,且从句用虚拟语气.had/would
rather后还可接than,再加不含to的不定式,还要注意would rather后只可接动词原形.
I would/had rather you paid me now.
我宁愿你现在付钱给我.
I would rather stay here than go on holiday.
我宁愿呆在这里,也不愿意去度假.
prefer to...rather
than...表示“比起……更喜欢……做某事”,注意结构中than后直接加动词原形,而不是不定式to do.
I prefer to work rather than remian idle.
比起无所事事,我更喜欢工作.
rather一般修饰动词（尤其时感观动词）和名词,表示的程度更强烈一点,意为“比预期的还要多一些”.
“Rather good. I was surprised.”
rather是程度副词,用来修饰原级或比较级形容词和副词、动词、分词或单数名词,意思是“有些”“相当”“多少地”,常用于负面含意.rather可和too连用,作程度状语,但此时不可以修饰比较级.
rather用以减弱而不是加强其后所跟的词或词组的作用,如拒绝别人请求帮助时,显得比较客气,又如为了谦虚,可用这词使自己在引人注目的场面表现得乐而不狂.
rather一般放在不定冠词前面,名词前有形容词时,也可放在不定冠词后面.