would rather / would sooner … than

would rather / would sooner … than used to say that you prefer one thing to another宁愿…而不愿…:•I'd rather drive than go by train.我宁愿开车去，也不愿坐火车。•She said she'd rather die than live in the city.她说她宁愿死也不住在城市里。

• identity function
• reinstituted
• double-reed
• sensationalizes
• ammonium hydrogen tartrate
• dirtless
• harems
• special sort
• sharp-shinned
• quadruplicating
• imbibed
• Hippocratic oath
• DlX,Otto
• sex-digital
• fire-flash
• autohagiography
• force an entrance into
• Public Lending Right
• glaikitness
• management by objective
• absolute values
• newly
• summer resort
• -iatry
• pass like a watch in the night
• defiantly
• prox. acc
• pyrite
• chromatic resolving power
• three-percent
• tread the stage
• radiation barrier
• International Development Association
• ambry
• plutuss
• aircraft observer
• as best(as)one may
• sandwich heating
• inevitable abortion
• benamed
• pd
• gossipy
• hydroscopic
• go gay
• inerasably
• false retrievals
• Abigail
• press boat
• unfreezing
• radiophosphorus
• a man of law
• Epiph
• grow in flesh
• in blossom
• sexualizations
• Gladstone bag
• gooseberries
• allotropical
• oxyhemoglobin
• follow-the-leaders
• legatines
• listening-in device
• the moving spirit
• demy octavo
• taxed cart
• oxidant
• dock at
• conscriptional
• translated
• a long figure
• boom shadow
• disobligingly
• sea level
• get ahold of
• magnetic resonance imagings
• in front of someone's eyes
• hefted
• defectibilities
• western diamondback rattlesnakes
• obsequent
• substitute for
• fastlink
• woolder
• devadasis
• hardiness
• factorability
• heave to
• sueable
• call sth↔off
• harpoon gun
• geochemical balance
• whether or no
• trichotomous
• dactylozooids
• put into
• dalgyte
• bumpkin
• bioassay
• operating tables
• morphophysiological