1. | [u][c][ususing] 偏见；偏心；偏向a strong feeling in favour of or against one group of people, or one side in an argument, often not based on fair judgement |
accusations of political bias in news programmes(= that reports are unfair and show favour to one political party) 对新闻报道中政治倾向性的指责 | |
Employers must consider all candidates impartially and without bias. 雇主必须公平而毫无成见地考虑所有求职者。 | |
Some institutions still have a strong bias against women. 有些机构仍然对女性持有很大偏见。 |
2. | [c][ususing] 偏爱；特殊能力an interest in one thing more than others; a special ability |
The course has a strong practical bias. 这个课程偏重实用。 |
3. | [u][sing] 斜裁thebias of a piece of cloth is an edge cut diagonally across the threads |
The skirt is cut on the bias. 这条裙子是斜裁的。 |
1. | ~ sb/sth (toward(s)/against/in favour of sb/sth) 使有偏见；使偏心；使偏向to unfairly influence sb's opinions or decisions |
The newspapers have biased people against her. 报章使人们对她产生了偏见。 |
2. | ~ sth 影响（研究或实验结果）以致产生偏差to have an effect on the results of research or an experiment so that they do not show the real situation |
The experiment contained an error which could bias the results. 这项实验有一个错误，可能导致结果出现偏差。 |
