This option is preferable to any other.

这个选择比其他任何一个都好。

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It would be preferable to employ two people, not one.

雇请两个人比雇请一个更好。

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Anything was preferable to the tense atmosphere at home.

什么都比家里的紧张气氛好。

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The election commission suggested that instead of attempting a flawed election on September 27, it is preferable to see if discussions between the government and opposition parties can find a compromise.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

I think it's obviously preferable to improve the products and sell it that way

我觉得显然较好的是改进产品质量来卖，

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"Should that other scenario, which is not preferable,happen, on that I think a sort of caretaker government has to be put together preferably with not Mr.Karzai at the top."

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

That would be less preferable to Andreessen as CEO but still a pretty close second.

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"Enabling the private sector to accomplish this goal is preferable to taxpayer funded efforts, " Churchill says.

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This is a key reason many economists consider mild inflation to be preferable to mild deflation.

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