The monks prefer winter to summer of they have more privacy.
修道士们喜欢冬天，而不太喜欢夏天。因为在冬天，他们可以更多地过无人打扰的生活。
新概念英语第三册 Lesson 8 A famous monastery

📚 句中词汇解析

从本句中提取的重要词汇

prefer [prɪ'fɝ] 词频1 词根: fer
vt. 更喜欢;提升，提拔;给予（债权人）优先权;提出（控告）; vi. 更喜欢，宁愿;
💡 pre预先+fer带来，拿来→预先带好→更喜欢
"The play is okay, but I still prefer the book."
戏还可以, 可我仍愿读原著.
近义：select, choose 反义：loathe, scorn, scout, slight, spurn, underestimate
privacy ['praɪvəsi] 词频4 词根: priv
n. 隐私，秘密;隐居;私事;不受公众干扰的状态;
💡 priv单个+acy名词后缀 → 个人的 → 隐私
"The media is accused of infringing on people's privacy."
人们指责媒体侵犯了大家的隐私.
近义：secrecy, confidentiality, intimacy 反义：honesty, openheartedness, outrightness, outspokenness, sincerity, singleness
winter ['wɪntɚ] 词频1
n. 冬，冬天;年岁;萧条期，衰落期; v. 过冬;冬季饲养（家畜）;使受冻，使萎缩; adj. 冬天的，冬季的;越冬的;冬播的;
"When winter comes, some birds will fly away to the south."
冬天到来时, 一些鸟就会飞到南方去.
近义：hibernate, hibernation, wintertime, hibernal, wintery, wintry 反义：summertime
summer ['sʌmɚ] 词频1
n. 夏，夏天;全盛时期，黄金时代，壮年时期;[建]大梁，檀条，楣，柱顶石;岁数; adj. 夏季的; v. 度过夏季，避暑;使度过夏季，夏季放牧（家畜）;
"a balmy summer evening"
清爽宜人的夏夜
近义：summertime, girder, summery, aestival, estival 反义：hibernation, wintertime
monks
n. 修道士, 僧侣（monk的复数）

📚 更多「新概念英语第三册」例句

This increases their air-resistance and reduces the shock of impact when they hit the ground.
这样就加大了空气阻力，并减少了它们着地时冲击力带来的震动。
One evening, however, he failed to arrive.
可是，有一天晚上，它出去后再也没回来。
My friend, Robert, lives in a country where snails are despised.
但我的朋友罗伯特却住在一个厌恶蜗牛的国家中。
Everyone went to the funeral, for the 'ghost' was none other than Eric Cox, a third brother who was supposed to have died as a young man.
大家都去参加了葬礼，因为那“鬼”不是别人，正是农场主的兄弟埃里克。考科斯。人们以为埃里克年轻时就死了。
Only an exceptionally heavy snowfall might temporarily dislocate railway services.
只有非同寻常的大雪才可能暂时打乱铁路运行。
They were expecting their sixth child and were faced with even more pressing economic problems.
第6个孩子即将问世，他们面临着更为严峻的经济问题。