| 单词 | predilection |
| 释义 | predi·lec·tion < a predilection for straight bourbon — C.V.Little > Synonyms: < one or two authors of fiction for whom I have a predilection and whose works I look out for — A.C.Benson > < the person with a predilection for history may think of such treasured shrines as Independence Hall, Valley Forge Park, and the Gettysburg Battlefields — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > partiality indicates a disposition to favor a person or thing, sometimes unfairly or with partisanship or undue fondness < fond partiality for their own daughters' performance, and total indifference to any other person's — Jane Austen > < sometimes newcomers to the fleet were a bit annoyed over the skipper's partiality toward this absentminded youth — L.C.Douglas > prepossession implies a fixed idea or notion, especially a value judgment, that dominates and is likely to preclude objective judgment of something seeming counter to it < we have not only to realise how our own prepossessions and the metaphysical figments of our own creation have obscured the simple realities of religion and science alike — Havelock Ellis > prejudice indicates a preconceived notion, a judgment before evidence is available, or an unreasoned prepossession, often an unfavorable one marked by suspicion, dislike, or antipathy < but she had prejudices on the side of ancestry; she had a value for rank and consequence, which blinded her a little to the faults of those who possessed them — Jane Austen > < every one I knew well in Sligo despised Nationalists and Catholics, but all disliked England with a prejudice that had come down perhaps from the days of the Irish Parliament — W.B.Yeats > bias may indicate an imbalance or distortion in judgment with a resulting unreasoned and unfair inclination for or against a person or thing < we can discover some of our own peculiarities, our own particular slant or bias — A.J.Toynbee > < the personal bias of the brilliant founder of psychoanalysis has given the Freudian psychology more than one twist — Edward Sapir > |
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