It was a preference for naturalness and simplicity that separated the Taoists from the Confucians.

正是对自然和质朴的偏爱把道家人士从儒家人士中区分开。

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Acanthasters show a preference for branching corals.

刺冠海星更偏好分枝的珊瑚。

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Does Lucy have a preference for a particular colour?

露西有偏爱哪种特定的颜色吗？

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"The habitat preference for this mosquito appears to be these partially-sunlit pools of water for the larvae.

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Whereas we all know that the universe is of a certain kind-- -- we can't even call it Copernican anymore-- poetry has this odd preference for Ptolemaic astronomy.

虽然我们都知道宇宙是怎样的-,现在即使哥白尼的理论也不完全正确了-,但是诗歌偏爱托勒密的宇宙观。

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God's preference for the offering of Abel valorizes the free life of the nomadic pastoralist over urban existence.

上帝对亚伯的优待，肯定了游牧式的生活,甚于定居的生活。

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Royce developed his disenchantment with glamour stocks and his preference for oddballs in the early 1970s.

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Asked about the stock exchange wars, respondents showed a clear preference for the NASDAQ.

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Voter preference for cost cutting over tax raising was pronounced in two other questions.

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