bias

英 ['baɪəs] 美 ['baɪəs]

• n. 偏见；偏爱；斜纹
• vt. 使偏心

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]偏见,偏心,偏袒

   opinion or feeling that strongly favors one side in an argument or one item in a group or series; prejudice

v. (动词)

1. vt. 使倾向于; 使存偏见

   cause to form fixed opinions or against sth without enough information to judge fairly

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 倾向
2. 斜线
3. 偏见
4. 斜纹
5. 偏爱
6. 成见
7. 趋势
8. 【电】偏压
9. 偏心
10. 偏压
11. 偏倚
12. 先入之见
13. 偏执
14. 嗜好
15. 癖
16. 斜痕
17. 【无线电】偏
18. 偏置
19. 【体】使球斜进的偏力
20. 歪圆形

adj. 形容词

1. 斜的
2. 斜纹的
3. 【电】偏动的
4. 斜的、倾斜的

adv. 副词

1. 偏斜地
2. 对角地
3. 斜
4. 偏
5. 曲
6. 歪

v. 动词

1. 使存偏见
2. 使有偏心
3. 加偏压于
4. 使偏重
5. 使偏向一方
6. 【电】加偏压于
7. 支配
8. 偏离
9. 给…加偏压
10. 使偏心
11. 使倾向于
12. 使偏向
13. 使有倾向性
14. 影响
15. 加偏压于…

英英释义

Noun:

1. a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation

2. a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric

Adjective:

1. slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric;

   "a bias fold"
   

Verb:

1. influence in an unfair way;

   "you are biasing my choice by telling me yours"
   

2. cause to be biased

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. He has a bias against Japanese products.
   他讨厌日本的产品。
2. Histories are often warped by bias.
   历史常为偏见所曲解。
3. The judge dispenses the law without bias.
   这名法官执法公正无私。
4. Her scientific bias showed itself in early childhood.
   她在科学方面的倾向性在孩童时代就已显现出来。
5. She has a strong musical bias.
   她对音乐有强烈的爱好。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

1. The lawyer made a tearful plea to bias the jury.
   这名律师以哭诉影响陪审团的裁决。
2. His experiences bias him against businessmen.
   他的经历使他对商人抱有偏见。
3. No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.
   任何人都不能充当法官来裁决自己的事情,因为他的利益必然是他的判断发生偏差,从而可能有损廉正。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. The committee is of a conservative bias.
   委员会有一种成见。
2. She is free from bias.
   她毫无偏见。
3. He is without bias.
   他不偏不倚。
4. Her scientific bias showed itself in early childhood.
   她对科学的偏爱在她幼年时就表现出来了。

～+ prep. -phrase

1. Some people has a bias against foreigners.
   有些人对外国人有偏见。
2. She has a bias against people who wear glasses.
   她有一种成见，不喜欢戴眼镜的人。
3. He has a bias against Scottish products.
   他对苏格兰产品有偏见。
4. He has a strong bias against the plan from the beginning.
   他对这个计划一开始就抱有强烈的偏见。
5. She liked old-fashioned ways and had a bias against progress.
   她喜欢旧有的方式，而对进步有偏见。
6. He has a bias against wasting money.
   他有一种倾向，不喜欢浪费钱。
7. Some companies have a bias for younger personnel.
   有些公司偏爱年轻的员工。
8. An umpire should have no bias in favour of either side.
   裁判不应偏袒任何一方。
9. The pianist has a bias in favour of Chopin.
   这位钢琴家偏爱肖邦。
10. He showed a strong bias towards women and minorities.
    他对妇女和少数民族表现出强烈的偏见。

用作动词 (v.)

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. Don't let his insults bias you against her.
   不要让他侮辱性的话使你对她产生偏见。
2. The newspapers biased their readers against the new government.
   这些报纸使读者对新政府产生偏见。
3. His background biases him against foreigners.
   他过去的经历使他对外国人有偏见。
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4. Many parents are biased against popular music.
   许多父母对流行音乐有偏见。
5. The judge was biased in favour of the second candidate.
   裁判对第二名候选人有偏袒。

经典引文

• Well, forward, forward! thus the bowl should run, And not unluckily against the bias.

  出自：Taming of Shrew , Shakespeare

• The skittle-player bends his body to give a bias to the bowl he has already delivered from his hand.

  出自： Hazlitt

• Just as a bowl with a bias, if you try to send it straight, the longer it rolls, the further it will swerve.

  出自： A. W. Hare

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

介词+～

• free from bias 毫无偏见
• without bias 毫无偏见

～+介词

• bias against 对…的成见
• bias for 对…的偏爱
• bias in favour of 对…的偏见或偏爱
• bias towards 对…的偏见或偏爱

词语用法

n. (名词)

1. bias的基本意思是指由于普遍的成见而再看人和事时采取不公正的、不审慎的、缺乏理性的态度，既可以用于恶感即“偏见”和“成见”，也可用于好感即“偏爱”和“癖好”，还可以用于表示“倾向”或“趋势”。
2. bias在用于恶感即“偏见”和“成见”时可接介词against或in favour of, towards;用于好感即“偏爱”和“癖好”时可接介词for或in favour of, towards。
3. bias虽以-s结尾，但却是可数名词单数形式，常与不定冠词连用。注意在be free from bias,without bias,no bias等短语中，bias前不用不定冠词。

v. (动词)

1. bias用作动词的意思是“使倾向于”,只用作及物动词,常用于被动结构。

词义辨析

prejudice，bias

• 这两个名词均有“偏见，成见”之意。
• prejudice侧重指在缺乏理由或证据之前就形成怀疑的、有恶感的偏见。
• bias指因个人的好恶或偏见，对人或物作出的不正确、或好或坏的判断或意见。

词源解说

• ☆ 16世纪20年代进入英语，直接源自法语的biais，意为斜的，喻意有时候为权宜之计；最初源自古希腊语的epikarsios，意为横斜的，斜穿过的。

近反义词

【近义词】

• prejudice
• prejudice

【反义词】

• fairness