How to say "I prefer x over y"?

Question

For example:

I prefer eating fried rice over fried chicken.

How to say that in chinese?

How about this?

我较喜欢吃炒饭比炸鸡
我炒饭比炸鸡较喜欢吃

我喜欢炒饭胜过炸鸡. You can also say plainly, 比起炸鸡, 我更喜欢炒饭. — user58955, Mar 29 '14 at 19:32
Actually in English we don't say this anyway. We would say "I prefer eating fried rice to fried chicken." or "I prefer eating fried rice over fried chicken." — hippietrail, Mar 30 '14 at 08:09
I agree with hippie, 'over' is what I would use here. As for the topic, what have you tried? — deutschZuid, Mar 31 '14 at 23:27
alright, I corrected the word in order not to confuse other people in future. — null, Apr 01 '14 at 05:52
Related: A more direct translation for “I [verb] [x] more than [y]” — Becky 李蓓, Nov 12 '19 at 06:12

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 21 '19 at 07:36

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I prefer X to Y can be translated as:

我喜欢X甚于Y
比起Y来，我更加喜欢X
我喜欢X的程度要超过Y
我喜欢Y，更加喜欢X

So,

I prefer eating fried rice over eating fried chicken.
我喜欢炒饭胜过炸鸡

edited Sep 21 '19 at 07:36

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answered Mar 30 '14 at 00:50

Ave Maleficum

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Just got a thought. Can I say like this? 我炒饭比炸较喜欢吃 – null Mar 31 '14 at 04:18
@suud People can understand you, it's just a little weird. You kinda of sound like Master Yoda. – Ave Maleficum Mar 31 '14 at 06:04
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I just corrected the word "than" to "over" in my question post, could you do the same in your answer? Btw there is a missing character (鸡) at above comment, it should be 我炒饭比炸鸡较喜欢吃. – null Apr 01 '14 at 05:51

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 04 '14 at 08:00

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the answer should be like this：比起Y，我更喜欢X

answered Apr 04 '14 at 08:00

Griffin

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Can you give an example using my question case? – null Apr 04 '14 at 15:48

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 05 '14 at 02:13

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the answer can be this:相比y，我更喜欢x

answered Apr 05 '14 at 02:13

user3521

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Can you give an example using my question case? – null Apr 06 '14 at 16:41

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 08 '14 at 10:28

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Chinese people don't say this. You can't force a language into any structure that happens to be common in English. 我喜歡X ("I like X") is good enough. Or 我更喜歡X ("I prefer X").

answered Apr 08 '14 at 10:28

user43898

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How to say "I prefer x over y"?

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