片语

would rather宁愿，宁可

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英汉例句

• when the mother saw it she wept and wailed. she would sooner have no child at all than a donkey, and she said that they should throw it into the water and let the fish eat it.

  母亲不见则已见了叫苦连天，她说自己宁可不要孩子也不愿有头驴，并且还想把他扔进河里让鱼吃掉。

• most brides would sooner set fire to the church and postpone the ceremony than to get married without something old, new, borrowed and blue.

  没有穿戴旧的、新的、借的、蓝色的四样东西，大多数新娘宁愿马上放火烧掉教堂、推迟婚期也不愿意结婚。

• most women would sooner give up silk scarves or designer shoes than mascara or eye shadow, which they consider to be more essential.

  大多数女士会优先放弃丝绸围巾或设计师品牌鞋子，比放弃她们认为更必需的睫毛膏或眼影要早。

• i would sooner you hadn′t asked me to speak yesterday.

  我倒宁愿你现在立刻回家去。

• proud men might shout that they would sooner die free than live as slaves, but pride was cheap.

  骄傲的男人可能会叫嚣他们宁愿死也不做奴隶，但是自尊是廉价的玩意儿。

• no, he would sooner quit kellynch hall at once, than remain in it on such disgraceful terms.

  不，我宁可马上离开凯林奇大厦，也不愿意按这样的屈辱条件继续呆在里面。

• i would sooner stay at home than go for a walk.

  我宁可呆在家里，也不愿去散步。

• it「s a message that resonates with americans who would sooner log a tree than hug it, and raises the possibility that conservatives and liberals might find common ground on climate change.

  这是一条能引起美国人共鸣的消息，他们很快就要伐木而不是抱着木头喊着「保护环境」，而且有很高的可能性保守主义者和自由主义者在气候方面找到共同点。

• many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

  人多有不及思索而辞世者，究其实，信然。

• i would sooner read a timetable or a catalogue than nothing at all.

  如果没有东西可读，我就会去读时刻表或者产品目录之类的东西。

• some men would sooner die free than live a slave i suppose.

  我想，有些人宁愿死得自由也不愿活作奴隶。

• if the gods wanted him, he would sooner die by drowning than choking on his own vomit.

  若神灵想让收回他的话，他宁愿被淹死而非被自己的呕吐物给呛死。

• so, is the folk wisdom that a cat will gladly eat its dead owner, but a dog would sooner starve, just bunk?

  民间流传，猫会欣然吃掉死去的主人，狗却宁可挨饿，难道是一派胡言？

• a bit laughable in 2010, just 12 years later. these days people would sooner fear apple than microsoft, proving that reality is stranger than fiction.

  可笑的是，12年后的2010年，人们很快会开始担心苹果而多过于微软，现实总是比小说更怪诞。

• i was never afraid of failure for i would sooner fail than not be among the best.

  我不害怕失败，但是不在最不错之中却是我的失败。（这句翻不不错）

• she would sooner have returned to meereen on dragon」s wings, to be sure. but that was a desire drogon did not seem to share.

  当然了，她宁愿骑在龙翼上飞回弥林。可是卓耿似乎并没有这个意思。

• 「people would sooner unplug their refrigerators than their cable boxes,」 says craig moffett, an analyst at sanford bernstein.

  伯恩斯坦的一位分析人士克莱格.墨菲特表示：「很快人们就会为了收看有线电视节目而拔掉电冰箱的插头了。」

• the ordinary human being would sooner starve than live on brown bread and raw carrots.

  普通人宁愿挨饿也不愿意吃黑面包和生胡萝卜。

• i would sooner we had dinner now.

  我宁愿我们现在就吃晚餐。

• multilateral liberalisation is a sort of jujitsu that uses exporters’ determination to get into foreign markets to overwhelm domestic lobbies that would sooner keep home markets closed.

  多边贸易自由化如同柔道一样，利用出口者进入外国市场的决心来击败本国的游说团体，否则他们很快就会关闭国内市场。

• many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

  有很多人，让他们思考一下还不如让他们去死。事实上，很多人还没思考过就已经死了。

• it was obvious to everyone that the marriage would sooner or later end in separation if not divorce.

  这是很明显的，大家都知道婚姻迟早会在年底离职如果不提出离婚。

• she would sooner move apartments or cities after that than return to her own community to face whispers and gossip.

  这种情况发生后，她宁愿搬家或离开这座城市，也不愿回到原来的住宅社区去面对流言蜚语。

• whoever won the election would sooner or later have to slash the deficit.

  无论谁最后赢得选举，早晚都必须消减赤字。

• your grace does not love the noble hizdahr. this one thinks you would sooner have another for your husband.

  陛下不爱高贵的希兹达尔。奴婢想您很快就会得到另一个丈夫的。