I prefer movies.

我偏愛電影。

I prefer cats.

我偏愛貓。

I prefer the oaks along the Warta.

我偏愛華爾塔河沿岸的橡樹。

I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky.

我偏愛狄更斯勝過陀思妥耶夫斯基。

I prefer myself liking people

我偏愛我對人群的喜歡

to myself loving mankind.

勝過我對人類的愛。

I prefer keeping a needle and thread on hand, just in case.

我偏愛在手邊擺放針線，以備不時之需。

I prefer the color green.

我偏愛綠色。

I prefer not to maintain

我偏愛不抱持把一切

that reason is to blame for everything.

都歸咎于理性的想法。

I prefer exceptions.

我偏愛例外。

I prefer to leave early.

我偏愛及早離去。

I prefer talking to doctors about something else.

我偏愛和醫生聊些別的話題。

I prefer the old fine-lined illustrations.

我偏愛線條細致的老式插畫。

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems

我偏愛寫詩的荒謬

to the absurdity of not writing poems.

勝過不寫詩的荒謬。

I prefer, where love&`&s concerned, nonspecific anniversaries

我偏愛，就愛情而言，可以天天慶祝的

that can be celebrated every day.

不特定紀念日。

I prefer moralists

我偏愛不向我做任何

who promise me nothing.

承諾的道德家。

I prefer cunning kindness to the over-trustful kind.

我偏愛狡猾的仁慈勝過過度可信的那種。

I prefer the earth in civvies.

我偏愛穿便服的地球。

I prefer conquered to conquering countries.

我偏愛被征服的國家勝過征服者。

I prefer having some reservations.

我偏愛有些保留。

I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.

我偏愛混亂的地獄勝過秩序井然的地獄。

I prefer Grimms&`& fairy tales to the newspapers&`& front pages.

我偏愛格林童話勝過報紙頭版。

I prefer leaves without flowers to flowers without leaves.

我偏愛不開花的葉子勝過不長葉子的花。

I prefer dogs with uncropped tails.

我偏愛尾巴沒被截短的狗。

I prefer light eyes, since mine are dark.

我偏愛淡色的眼睛，因為我是黑眼珠。

I prefer desk drawers.

我偏愛書桌的抽屜。

I prefer many things that I haven&`&t mentioned here

我偏愛許多此處未提及的事物

to many things I&`&ve also left unsaid.

勝過許多我也沒有說到的事物。

I prefer zeroes on the loose

我偏愛自由無拘的零

to those lined up behind a cipher.

勝過排列在阿拉伯數字后面的零。

I prefer the time of insects to the time of stars.

我偏愛昆蟲的時間勝過星星的時間。

I prefer to knock on wood.

我偏愛敲擊木頭。

I prefer not to ask how much longer and when.

我偏愛不去問還要多久或什么時候。

I prefer keeping in mind even the possibility

我偏愛牢記此一可能——

that existence has its own reason for being.

存在的理由不假外求。