如何表达“喜欢”？

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like

love

I have been in Cairns for a while now, I absolutely love it and could not imagine being anywhere else.

enjoy

But I used to enjoy art most.

When we are talking about our preferences for the actions of another person, we can use would prefer + object pronoun + to-infinitive or would prefer it if + past simple:

They’d prefer us to come later. (or They’d prefer it if we came later.)

Would you prefer me to drive? (or Would you prefer it if I drove?)

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可用习语

more of a/an … person

A: Would you like to go with me to see a basketball game?
B: No, thank you. I’m more of a baseball person (than a basketball person).

prefer

I prefer red wine to white.
[ + -ing verb ] He prefers watching football to playing it.
[ + to infinitive ] I’d prefer not to discuss this issue.

prefer … rather than …

When we want to say that we would like to do one thing more than another, we can introduce the second thing with rather than, followed by an infinitive without to:

I’d prefer to go skiing this year rather than go on a beach holiday.
Most convalescents prefer to be cared for at home rather than in a hospital.

would prefer

We use would prefer or ’d prefer, followed by a to-infinitive or a noun, to talk about present and future preferences:

I’d prefer to go by myself.
Would you prefer a quieter restaurant?
She’d prefer not to drive at night.

When we use would or ’d with hate, like, love, prefer, we use the to-infinitive, not the -ing form:

would rather

I hate decorating. I’d rather pay a professional to do it.

I’d rather watch a film with subtitles than one dubbed into English.

He’d rather die than (= he certainly does not want to) let me think he needed help.

more of a/an … person

A: Would you like to go with me to see a basketball game?
B: No, thank you. I’m more of a baseball person (than a basketball person).