Heterosexuals should not be treated preferentially when the state carries out that role.
当国家执行这个作用的时候不应该优先对待异性恋者。
Then back in Spain, they trained a strain of Pseudomonas bacteria to preferentially nibble salt blooms.
回到西班牙后，他们便培养了一种可以优先吞食盐层的假单胞菌。
"We try to find which parts of the brain preferentially talk to which other parts, " he says. "We can sort of map that out, and at the end it sort of spits out a number.
“我们希望弄明白大脑中哪些部分优先和哪些部分通信”他说“我们可以从某种程度上将其映射出来，并最终以数字的方式反映出来，这就是“脑龄””。
adj. preferred、 preferential
n. preference、 preferment
v. preferred