宁可

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  • preferably;would rather;better
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宁可 [nìng kě]
  • [would rather;better] 表示在权衡两方面的利害得失后,选择其中的一面

  • 宁可共载不。--《乐府诗集.陌上桑》

  • 宁可早点儿出发,也不要迟到

宁可[nìng kě; níng kě]
  1. 我宁可凝视繁星满天的晴朗夜空也不愿盯着电视机。

    I would rather stare at a clear , star-filled sky than a TV set

  2. 主席风趣地说,他宁可卖掉他的航空公司,也不愿出售他的计算机系统。

    The chairman quipped that he would rather sell his airline than his computer systems .

  3. 我认为宁可过于谨慎也不要冒风险。

    I thought it was better to err on the side of caution .

  4. 她宁可和其他学生合住,也不愿跟父母住在家里。

    She 'd sooner share a house with other students than live at home with her parents .

  5. 我宁可不睡觉,也不愿错过晚上的课。

    I would sooner give up sleep than miss my evening class

  6. 要是你不介意的话,我宁可不这样做。

    I 'd sooner not , if you don 't mind .

  7. 宁可自亡,不可行凶。

    It is better to die oneself than to kill .

  8. 我宁可你把那玩意收起来。

    I 'd just as soon you put that thing away

  9. 我本来就宁可去电影院看,而不是看录像。

    I 'd rather see it at the pictures than on video anyway .

  10. 和所有十几岁的孩子一样,有一样东西她宁可没有——青春痘。

    Like all teenagers there 's one thing she 'd rather do without — spots .

  11. 她宁可把盘子砸到你脸上也不愿伺候你。

    She 'd just as soon throw your plate in your face as serve you .

  12. 我宁可不去谈论它。

    I 'd sooner not talk about it

  13. 我宁可让他一个人去烦恼。

    I 'd rather let him stew

  14. 我宁可掏钱请客,也不愿看到9位朋友算来算去分摊账单。

    I would rather pay for a meal than watch nine friends pick over and split a bill

  15. 他说他宁可永远坐在那里,也不会付给他们一分钱。

    He says he 'll sit there until hell freezes over before he 'll pay them one cent .

  16. 福特郑重声明他宁可把自己的工厂付之一炬,也不愿意生产一辆用于战争的车辆。

    Ford vowed that he would sooner burn his factory to the ground than build a single vehicle for war purposes

  17. 守财奴爱财如命,宁可饿肚皮,没衣穿。

    Misers put their back and their belly into their pockets .

  18. 宁可让人妒忌,不可让人怜悯。

    Better be envied than pitied .

  19. 宁可失足,不可失言。

    Better the foot slip than the tongue .

  20. 宁可虚位以待,也不要让不称职的人滥竽充数。

    We 'd rather leave the place vacant than have someone incompetent fill the position .

  21. 也许官僚们把威信押在一种政策上之后,他们就宁可看它失败,也不愿放弃它。

    Perhaps when enough bureaucratic prestige has been invested in a policy it is easier to see it fail than to abandon it .

  22. 为了避免路上交通拥挤,有些人宁可夜间驱车远行,白天休息。

    In order to avoid the heavy traffic on the roads , some people prefer to travel by night and rest during the day .

  23. 宁可贫穷而无人问津,也不要富贵而责任缠身。

    Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations .

  24. 杰拉得:我宁可要半个。

    Teacher : Would ? Gerald : I 'd much rather have the half .

  25. 你知道么?我宁可要一个懦弱的孩子,也不想要一个死的

    I 'd rather have a wimpy kid than a dead one , you know ?

  26. 在人们的印象中,他们宁愿写代码也不愿交流,如果他们不得不交流,他们宁可在网上交流,而非面对面。

    According to the stereotype1 , they ’ d rather code than converse2 , and if they must do the latter , they 'd rather do it online than in person .

  27. 但是,海豚轻蔑地对他说:“我们宁可争斗到同归于尽,也不会让一条像你这样的西鲱鱼来调解”。

    But one of the dolphins said to him contemptuously , " We would rather go on fighting till we 're all killed than be reconciled2 by a sprat like you ! "

  28. 他刨出出来的是一颗不知什么时候遗落在庭院里的珍珠“你也许这是个宝贝”,公鸡大人说,“对于人类来说,他们会珍惜你,但在我看来,我宁可要一粒大麦也不想琢一粒珍珠。”

    What did it turn out to be but a pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard ? " You may be a treasure , " quoth master pock , " to men that prize you , but for me I would rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls . "

  29. 我发现许多朋友都遇到了相同的问题:他们宁可整天泡在facebook上,也不愿意做点儿有意义的事。

    I have observed the same problem manifesting itself in many of my friends : they would much rather sit around on Facebook all day than do anything useful .

  30. 看来亚马逊宁可在利润上承受一笔巨大的损失,也要把尽可能多的KindleFire平板送进消费者手中,好让他们去使用自己海量的在线服务。

    The e-commerce giant appears willing to take a hit on profit so it can get as many Kindle Fires into customers'hands as possible and hook them onto its myriad online services .