陳國詩的英文分享平台

關鍵字彙：

biased/ bigoted/ disinterested/ dispassionate/ equitable/ even-handed/ favoritism/ iniquitous/ jaundiced/ nepotism/ partiality/ prejudice

1. 「超然的」、「公正的」、「一視同仁的」可用disinterested、dispassionate或even-handed：

•His action was not disinterested because he hoped to make money out of the affair.

•The only disinterested person in the room was the judge.

•He was coldly dispassionate as the chairperson of the meeting.

•To be honest, it may not be easy for a teacher to give exactly even-handed treatment to all students.

2. 「公平合理的」可用equitable，「不公不義的」叫iniquitous：

•Paying a person what he is worth is equitable.

•I cannot approve of the iniquitous method he used to gain his present position.

3. 「偏見的」可用biased、bigoted或jaundiced，「偏見」可用prejudice：

•Misled by a biased point of view, he is firmly convinced that the disabled have no need to receive high education.

•He had a bigoted opinion that the Anglo-Saxons were the most intelligent people in the world.

•He looks on all these modern ideas with a rather jaundiced eye.

•You had better look into the problems without jaundiced eyes.

•A judge must be free from prejudice.

•He has a prejudice against students graduating from private universities because he thinks that they were not well educated.

4. 「偏袒」、「偏心」可用favoritism或partiality，「偏袒親戚」、「裙帶關係」叫nepotism：

•Vincent doesn't deserve that job--he only got it out of favoritism because he married the owner's daughter.

•As a judge, you must avoid any evidence of partiality when you award the prize.

•John left his position with the company because he felt that advancement was based on nepotism rather than ability.