White clothes are preferable to black ones in hot weather since white reflects light.

因为白颜色反射光，所以天气炎热时，穿白衣服比黑衣服好。

However agonising the insight and mourning might be, these must always be preferable to allowing loss to contaminate the totality of one's perspective.

无论这种领悟和哀悼多么痛苦，总比为整个人的一切都感到绝望要好。

Anything was preferable to being a helpless witness to such pain. Anything was better than being tied here waiting for a baby that took such a long time coming.

做什么都好，就是不要眼睁睁地看着这种痛苦的情景而毫无办法埃要守在这里，花这么长时间等一个孩子落地，没有比这倒霉的事了。

Antarctic explorers report that it is preferable to follow someone on the ice than to lead, because at least there is something to look at.

南极探险者报告说，在冰面跟随别人行走比领头好，因为至少眼前有东西可以看。

And that would be preferable to, say, putting them on the key holder which just happens to look like a large key.

比如说，你要是能匙放在这个长得像匙的匙架就好了。

Provided that individual students can attend all sessions, separating training into multiple sessions, in other words spaced-learning, is preferable to mass learning.

如果每个学生都能参加所有课程，那么将培训分成多个课程，换句话说，间隔学习比规模学习可取。

False positives in medical testing are preferable to false negatives, but they can still lead to stress or unnecessary treatment.

医学检测中的假阳性优于假阴性，但它们仍然可能导致压力或不必要的治疗。

For instance, the word police officer is preferable to a policeman which implies that it's a man.

例如，警官 police officer 就比 policeman 可取，因为后者暗示它是男人。

A glass of icy tea is preferable to a cup of coffee on a hot day.

热天的时候，一杯冰茶要比一杯咖啡讨喜。

" Do you indeed, my ministering angel? Then lice and slops are preferable to my conversation? Well, far be it from me to keep a pair of willing hands from laboring for Our Glorious Cause" .

" 你真的想回去了，我的救护天使？那么你宁愿去跟虱子和脏水打交道，不想跟我交谈了？好吧，我才不想拖住你这双勤奋的手不让它去为我们的光荣事业效劳呢。"

Sometimes ignorance is preferable to the detailed truth.

有时无知比详细的真相可取。

Neither choice is super-appealing, but either is preferable to piling up debt.

两个选择都不太吸引人，但都比负债累累要好。

Monroe had gradually come to the conclusion that war was preferable to pointless negotiations.

门罗逐渐得出结论，认为战争比毫无意义的谈判可取。

Your outcome is a good outcome, and that is preferable to bankruptcy.

你的结果是一个好结果，这比破产要好。

After all, paddling a kayak is preferable to pulling one.

毕竟，划独木舟比拖独木舟要好。

You're definitely going to say as a Stoic, One life is preferable to the other.

你肯定会以斯多葛主义者的身份说，一种生活优于另一种生活。

And so a job where you're exploited is preferable to no job at all.

所以在一个被剥削的工作也比没有工作好。

A thief is preferable to a habitual liar, but the lot of both is ruin.

惯常撒谎者不如盗贼，然两者终将自毁。

I think everybody agrees that doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious.

我认为家都认同，达成协议总比采取显而易见的行动要好。

Doing a deal would be preferable to doing the obvious.

达成协议总比采取显而易见的行动要好。