被排在別人前面的待遇
把「哪一個先被選」從個人的喜好搬到制度上：不是某個人偏心，而是規則本身讓某一群人排在前面。
preference, priority treatment · noun · B2
The chance to be chosen or helped before other people, often because of something that was unfair in the past.
優先；優待
核心畫面
Picture two things put in front of you and your hand moving towards one of them. The word names that leaning — not how much you like something on its own, but which one wins when you have to pick. Once you see it as ranking rather than liking, the second sense follows: if one group is put ahead of another in a queue, that is the same leaning built into a rule.
可以想成：兩樣東西擺在你面前，你的手往其中一邊伸過去。這個字說的是那個「偏向」——重點不是你多喜歡某樣東西，而是非選…更多收起
可以想成：兩樣東西擺在你面前，你的手往其中一邊伸過去。這個字說的是那個「偏向」——重點不是你多喜歡某樣東西，而是非選不可時哪一個會贏。一旦把它看成排順序而不是喜歡，第二個意思就順下來了：如果制度上讓某一群人排在前面，那就是同一個偏向被寫進了規則裡。From the picture
舊式的說法
這個用法把「選擇」的框架套在一個現在多半不被視為選擇的事情上，也正是它逐漸被換掉的原因。
sexual preference · noun · B2
In the phrase 'sexual preference': an older, formal way of saying who a person is attracted to and may want to share their life with.
性傾向（舊式說法）
Also in this word
preference, favorite · noun · B2
The thing you like more than another thing, and the one you will choose when you get to choose.
偏好
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
preferencenoun詞源 1/ˈpɹɛf(ə)ɹ(ə)ns/
- 1
The selection of one thing or person over others (with the main adposition being "for" in relation to the thing or person, but possibly also "of")
- He has a preference for crisp wines.
- 2
The option to so select, and the one selected.
- Can I keep my preferences when I upgrade to the new version of this application?
- Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
- 3
The state of being preferred over others.
- 4
A strong liking or personal valuation.
- 5
A preferential bias; partiality; discrimination.
preferenceverb詞源 1/ˈpɹɛf(ə)ɹ(ə)ns/
- 1
To give preferential treatment to; to give a preference to.
preferencenoun詞源 2
- 1
Preferans, a card game, principally played in Eastern Europe.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。