| 单词 | bias |
| 释义 | bias (once / 818 pages) 1nv 2nadj Use the noun bias to mean a preference for one thing over another, especially an unfair one. Some biases are completely innocent: "I have a bias toward French wines." But most often, bias is used to describe unfair prejudices: "The authorities investigated a case involving bias against Latinos." It is also a verb meaning "to show prejudice for or against," as in "They claimed the tests were biased against women." (In British English, it takes an extra S in the forms biassed and biassing.) The word goes back at least to Old Provençal, a former language of southern France, in association with the sport of lawn bowling, where it referred to the tendency of a ball to roll in one direction or the other. WORD FAMILYbias: biased, biasedly, biases, biasing, biasly, biassed, biassing+/biased: unbiased/biassed: unbiassed/unbiased: unbiasedly USAGE EXAMPLESThis past year I wrote often about the racial inequality and bias that keep this country from being its best. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Personal bias clouds our perceptions so profoundly that employee performance ratings often reveal more about the person conducting them than the person being rated. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) During the first presidential debate, Hillary Clinton argued that “implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police.” New York Times(Dec 09, 2016) 1 1n a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation Syn|Hypo|Hyper preconception, prejudice taboo, tabu a prejudice (especially in Polynesia and other South Pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature irrational hostilityextreme prejudice experimenter bias(psychology) bias introduced by an experimenter whose expectations about the outcome of the experiment can be subtly communicated to the participants in the experiment homophobiaprejudice against (fear or dislike of) homosexual people and homosexuality Islamophobiaprejudice against Muslims racismthe prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races tendentiousnessan intentional and controversial bias anti-Semitism, antisemitismthe intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people white supremacythe prejudice that members of the white race are superior to members of other races partiality, partisanship an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives 2v influence in an unfair way you are biasing my choice by telling me yours Hypo|Hyper handicap attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant prejudice, prepossess influence (somebody's) opinion in advance 3v cause to be biased 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper predetermine angle, slant, weight present with a bias prejudice, prepossess influence (somebody's) opinion in advance 1n a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric Syn|Hyper diagonal straight line a line traced by a point traveling in a constant direction; a line of zero curvature 2adj slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric a bias fold Syn oblique slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled |
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