Front | bias |
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Pron | ['baɪəs] |
Back | 【bias】 n.偏见 The umpire should have no bias in favor of either side. 栽判员对两方应不偏不倚。 |
Vocab | biasa partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
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. All forms of 'bias' will appear on average once every 818 pages. bias biased unbiased unbiassed |
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