| 1. | Poverty is preferable to ill health .
贫穷比不健康好一点。 |
| 2. | Poverty is preferable to ill-health .
贫穷总比不健康好。 |
| 3. | The rule of law is preferable to that of a single citizen .
相对于人治来说，法制更可取。 |
| 4. | Death is preferable to dishonor .
死胜于受辱。 |
| 5. | He finds country life preferable to living in the city .
他感到在乡村生活比在城市生活要好些。 |
| 6. | Feeding by stomach tube is preferable to tv fluid administration .
胃管喂饲法较静脉输液更为可取。 |
| 7. | Then she went out again-anything seemed preferable to what she was actually doing .
然后她又出门去了--无论什么都比她实际正在做的事情有趣。 |
| 8. | It appeared preferable to rent freight vessels at new york, and to load them with the iron in bars .
看起来，在纽约租船装运铁锭，是比较合算的。 |
| 9. | However, it is preferable to utilize the semilog linear plot method with several experimental points .
不过，用几个试验点作半对数线形图的方法更为可取。 |
