had rather

释义

宁愿，宁可；

Thief had rather eclectic taste
"HAD RATHER GO"AND LIKE, OR SEEMINGLY LIKE, IDIOMS
SHAKSPEARIANA: "I HAD RATHER LIE IN THE WOOLLEN"
"Then some had rather it were she than I": sexing the textual body
"I Had Rather Had Eleven Die Nobly for their Country": A Study of Coriolanus
Review of Murphy, Kim, I Had Rather Die: Rape in the Civil War
"Ordinary North-Carolinese,""I Had Rather Stay than to Go with You"
"I had rather to adopt a child than get it": Mythical Lost Children in Caryl Phillips's The 'Nature of Blood'
"I had rather he should be a blockhead than an atheist":the undermining of clerical guidance in the eighteenth-century novel
Black Giles, the poacher : with some account of a family who had rather live by their wits than their work : in two parts.