A glass of icy tea is preferable to a cup of coffee on a hot day.

大热天的时候，一杯冰茶要比一杯咖啡更讨喜。

For instance, the word police officer is preferable to a policeman which implies that it's a man.

例如，警官 police officer 就比 policeman 更可取，因为后者暗示它是男人。

False positives in medical testing are preferable to false negatives, but they can still lead to stress or unnecessary treatment.

医学检测中的假阳性优于假阴性，但它们仍然可能导致压力或不必要的治疗。

Sometimes ignorance is preferable to the detailed truth.

有时无知比详细的真相更可取。

I suppose it is preferable to beheading.

但我觉着总比掉脑袋强。

No, I just think eight years is preferable to life.

我只是觉得八年比终身监禁要好。

Monroe had gradually come to the conclusion that war was preferable to pointless negotiations.

门罗逐渐得出结论，战争比毫无意义的谈判更可取。

The rattler in every case came out hurriedly, as though anything were preferable to being shut in.

每次响尾蛇匆匆忙忙地出来， 好像任何事情比被关起来要好。

And that would be preferable to, say, putting them on the key holder which just happens to look like a large key.

比如说，你要是能把钥匙放在这个长得像把大钥匙的钥匙架上就更好了。

Provided that individual students can attend all sessions, separating training into multiple sessions, in other words spaced-learning, is preferable to mass learning.

如果每个学生能参加所有课程，那么将培训分成多个课程，换句话说，间隔学习比大规模学习更可取。

Swithin stood and waited some time; till he considered that upon the whole it would be preferable to leave.

Swithin 站在那里等了一会儿。直到他认为总的来说还是离开比较好。

However agonising the insight and mourning might be, these must always be preferable to allowing loss to contaminate the totality of one's perspective.

无论这种领悟和哀悼多么痛苦，总比为整个人的一切感到绝望要好。

The British model offered strength, order and authority, which they thought was preferable to the weakness of the American system.

英国模式提供了力量、秩序和权威，他们认为这比美国体制的弱点更可取。

But the pain of acknowledging our reality is preferable to the pain that comes with trying to repress or deny.

但承认我们现实的痛苦比试图压抑或否认所带来的痛苦更可取。

I was trying to calculate whether it was preferable to lose the odd finger to frostbite rather than put myself back into that room.

我正在计算是不是因为冻伤失去奇数手指比让自己回到那个房间更可取。

Anything was preferable to being a helpless witness to such pain. Anything was better than being tied here waiting for a baby that took such a long time coming.

做什么好，就是不要眼睁睁地看着这种痛苦的情景而毫无办法埃要守在这里，花这么长时间等一个孩子落地，世界上没有比这更倒霉的事了。

It was preferable to the charnel-chamber in which she was standing now, and the light in it was soft and large, as from some gracious, noble opening.

这比她现在所站的停尸房要好得多， 里面的光线柔和而明亮， 就像是从某个亲切、高贵的开口射来的。

You often had a good book with you, but seldom read it; the conversation of that noble being was preferable to everything, —that beautiful, bright, gentle, and yet ever-toiling woman.

你常带一本好书， 却很少读；那个高贵的人的谈吐胜过一切——那个美丽、聪明、温柔， 但永远辛勤工作的女人。

After all, it is preferable to be hated than loved by him. When I recollect how happy we were--how happy Catherine was before he came--I'm fit to curse the day'.'

到底，被他爱还不如被他恨。我一回忆我们过去曾经多快乐——在他来之前，凯瑟琳曾经多么快乐——我真要诅咒如今的日子。’

I was happy to take the money because it was preferable to lots of other kinds of work and I was often, you know, I was treated really well by and large.

我很高兴拿到这笔钱，因为它比许多其他类型的工作更可取， 而且我经常，你知道，总的来说，我受到了很好的对待。