西汉演义小说在线阅读:prefer sth. to sth.

应该是更喜欢苹果.
句型:
prefer A to B 更喜欢A I prefer tea to coffee.更喜欢茶
prefer doing to doing 更喜欢前面的doing I prefer walking to swimming更喜欢散步
prefer to do 更喜欢做某事 I prefer to singing我更喜欢唱歌

prefer 是更喜欢的意思．
prefer A to B 比起后者更喜欢前者
prefer apples to pears 比起梨来更喜欢苹果.

比起雪梨我更喜欢苹果

它强调的是前者

及物动词 vt. 更喜欢；宁愿（选择）
like one thing better than another;to choose
· Would you prefer tea or coffee?
你要茶还是要咖啡？
· He always prefers staying at home.
他一向比较喜欢待在家里。
· He preferred to stay at home rather than go with us.
他宁愿待在家里，不愿和我们一起去。
· They preferred her not to go with them.
他们宁愿她不跟他们去。
· She preferred that we should have the discussion right after the lecture.
她愿意我们一听完课就讨论。
· prefer...to...
宁愿…不愿…
· I prefer tea to coffee.
我喜欢喝茶，而不喜欢喝咖啡。
· I prefer doing to talking.
我宁愿干，不愿谈。
· prefer...rather than
宁愿…而不愿
· I prefer to do this rather than that.
我宁愿做这件事而不愿做那件事。

比起雪梨我更喜欢苹果

解释：prefer A to B
喜欢A胜过B