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- 宁可 A，也/也要/也不 B
- 我宁可自己吃亏，也不让朋友为难。
I’d rather suffer a loss myself than put my friend in a difficult position.
- 宁可 focuses on the speaker’s preference.
- 与其 focuses on comparing two options (A is worse, B is better).
- 宁愿 / 宁肯 are close synonyms; 宁愿 is the most common in speech.
