bias
n
1 opinion or feeling that strongly favours one side in an argument or one item in a group or series; predisposition; prejudice 偏見; 成見; 偏心
The university has a bias towards/in favour of/against the sciences. 該大學偏重[側重/歧視]理科.
The committee is of a/has a conservative bias. 委員會有一種保守的偏見.
He is without bias, ie is impartial. 他沒有成見.
2 slanting direction across threads of woven material (織物的)斜紋
The skirt is cut on the bias, ie cut with the threads running diagonally across the weave. 這條裙子是斜裁的(斜開料剪裁).
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(a) (in bowls) tendency of the ball to swerve because of the way it is weighted (滾木球的)偏斜.
(b) weighting that causes this (滾木球的)偏重心. bias, v (-s-, -ss-) [Tn, Tn.pr]
~ sb (towards/in favour of/against sb/sth) give a bias to sb; prejudice sb; influence sb, esp unfairly 對某人有偏見、成見、影響(尤指不公正者)
a bias(s)ed account/jury, ie one which is not impartial 有偏見的敘述[陪審團]
The newspaper/He is clearly bias(s)ed (in the government's favour). 報紙[他]很明顯是偏向(政府)的.