by preference

基本解釋

We dress simply by preference.
我們僅憑個(gè)人偏好選擇穿著。
They selected 10 CDs they would like to own and ranked them by preference.
他們可以選擇 10 張想買的 CD，并按喜好排序。
This man had the air of a person who is seeking lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint-Marceau.
那個(gè)人好象是在尋一個(gè)住處，并且喜歡在圣馬爾索郊區(qū)貧苦的邊緣地帶的那些最樸素的房屋面前停下來觀望。

And by nihilism, I mean the view that every preference, however squalid, base or sordid, must be regarded as the legitimate equal of every other.
我所謂的虛無主義,意指所有偏好，無論如何卑鄙，拙劣，或下賤都必需被視為,與所有其它同等合法。
耶魯公開課 - 政治哲學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
So a number of you, even if the price was just a tiny bit different might have a preference for one rather than the other, so without getting in trouble by putting the camera on you, how many of you would have a preference, if the prices were essentially the same how many of you would have a strict preference for Pepsi?
那么你們中的很多人,盡管價(jià)格只有一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)不同,也許還是傾向于其中一個(gè)產(chǎn)品,不讓你們上鏡頭而招來麻煩,你們誰會(huì)有傾向,如果價(jià)格差不多,誰會(huì)傾向選擇百事可樂
耶魯公開課 - 博弈論課程節(jié)選

There was no food in the apartment, and one theory is that Firestone starved, though no autopsy was conducted, by preference of her Orthodox Jewish family.
NEWYORKER: Death of a Revolutionary
Mr Cameron, over the shrieks of most of his party, has promised a referendum on introducing an alternative-vote (AV) system allowing voters to rank candidates by preference.
ECONOMIST: British politics