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- mass noun prejudice in favour of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, especially in a way considered to be unfair偏袒; 偏见：
there was evidence of bias against black applicants
有证据表明对黑人申请者抱有偏见
the bias towards younger people in recruitment
对新招聘人员中较年轻者的偏袒
in sing. a systematic bias in favour of the powerful.对权势者的有计划邀宠行为。
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- in sing. a concentration on or interest in one particular area or subject（对某领域或学科的）偏好, 兴趣：
his work showed a discernible bias towards philosophy.
他在工作中表现出对哲学的明显爱好。
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- a systematic distortion of a statistical result due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation（统计）偏差, 偏倚, 偏性。
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- an edge cut obliquely across the grain of a fabric（对织物的）斜裁。
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- Bowls the irregular shape given to a bowl【滚木球】偏重心球形。
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- the oblique course that such a shape causes a bowl to run（草地滚木球曲线滚动的）偏斜路线。
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- Electronics a steady voltage, magnetic field, or other factor applied to an electronic system or device to cause it to operate over a pre-determined range【电子】偏压; 偏统。
(biased, biasing或biassed, biassing)
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- with obj.（一般作be biased）cause to feel or show prejudice for or against someone or something使有偏心, 使有偏见：
readers said their paper was biased towards the Conservatives
读者反映他们的报纸偏袒保守党
editors were biased against authors from provincial universities
编辑对来自地方大学的作者存有偏见
as adj. biased a biased view of the world.褊狭的世界观。
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- Electronics give a bias to【电子】加偏压（或偏流）于：
bias the valve so that the anode current is normally zero or small.
给热阴极电子管加偏压以便阴极电流通常为零或很小。
短语
cut on the bias
- (of a fabric or garment) cut obliquely or diagonally across the grain（织物或衣料）斜裁的, 斜剪的。
词源
mid 16th cent. （in the sense 'oblique line'; also as an adjective meaning 'oblique'）： from French biais, from Provençal., perhaps based on Greek epikarsios 'oblique'.