1.White clothes are preferable to black ones in hot weather since white reflects light.

因为白颜光，所以天气炎热时，穿白衣服比黑衣服好。

2.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。

3.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。

4.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。

5.Sometimes ignorance is preferable to the detailed truth.

有时无知比详细的真相更可取。机翻

6.I suppose it is preferable to beheading.

但我觉着总比掉脑袋强。

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

我是觉得八年比终身监禁要好。

8.In this setting, a lobectomy is preferable to sublobar resection.

在这种情况下，肺叶切除术优于亚肺叶切除术。机翻

9.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。机翻

10.In many cases it's preferable to just repeat the word.

在许多情况下, 最好是重复这个词。机翻

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

每次响尾蛇都匆匆忙忙地出来， 好像任何事情都比被关起来要好。机翻

12.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。

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

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

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

Swithin 站在里等了一会儿。直到他认为总的来说还是离开比较好。机翻

15.Few would argue that a simpler consciousness, no matter how harmonious, is preferable to a more complex one.

很少有人会认为，一个再和谐的简单意识也比复杂意识更可取。机翻

16.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痛苦，总比为整个人的一切都感到绝望要好。

17.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。

18.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。机翻

19." Courtship is preferable to courtrooms—we are wooing, not suing, " said its chief executive, Robert Thompson, who praised Sam Altman, OpenAI's boss.

OpenAI 首席执行官罗伯特·汤普森 (Robert Thompson) 表示：“求爱比法庭更可取——我们是在求爱，而不是起诉。”他还对 OpenAI 老板萨姆·奥特曼 (Sam Altman) 表示赞赏。机翻

20.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个房间更可取。机翻