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to lean / to slant / oblique / prejudiced / to deviate from average / to stray from the intended line / stubbornly / contrary to expectations
HSK 6
prejudice / bias
HSK 7-9
to be on the low side; to be inadequate (e.g. of a salary)
to have a special liking (for sth)
remote / desolate / far from the city
HSK 7-9
partial towards sth / to prefer / to incline / erroneous tendencies (Leftist or Revisionist deviation)
HSK 7-9
remote / far from civilization
HSK 7-9
to be partial towards sth / to favor / to prefer / preference / favorite
by coincidence / it so happened that / fortunately / against expectation
(idiom) even-handed; impartial; unbiased
partial / biased / prejudiced / eccentric
to overemphasize some topic (at the expense of others) / overdoing it / to go overboard
folk remedy / home remedy
HSK 7-9
polarization of light / polarized light
component of a Chinese character (as the radical or the phonetic part)
(lit.) to take a part for the whole / to generalize
listen to both sides and you will be enlightened; heed only one side and you will remain ignorant (idiom)
yellowish
(indicating that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately; as it happened / (indicating that sth is the opposite of what would be normal or reasonable) stubbornly; contrarily; against reason / (indicating that sb or a group is singled out) precisely; only; of all people
HSK 7-9
content to hold a small part of the territory / fig. forced to relinquish the middle ground / forced to move away
(physics) polarization
to favor / to prefer / to show favoritism
to go off-topic; to stray from the topic / obscure question; trick exam question; catch question (CL:)
displacement / deviation / offset
to remedy defects and correct errors (idiom); to rectify past mistakes
paranoia; monomania
deflection (physics) / deviation (away from a straight line)
extreme and inflexible; fixated; stubborn in clinging to a notion / (psychology) paranoid
crooked / not upright / diverging from straight line / improper / dishonest
partial to (some kinds of food, usu. unhealthy) / having likes and dislikes / partial eclipse
lit. to willfully go towards the mountain although knowing that it has tigers (idiom) / fig. to take a risk despite knowing the dangers
side room / concubine
migraine
to deviate / to diverge / to wander
not leaning to one side / impartial / even-handed
inclining to the west (e.g. of the sun after noon, indicating lateness of the day)
angle of drift (navigation) / deflection (from course) / angle of divergence
to be on the high side / to be unusually high
undue trouble / Thank you for having gone out of your way to help me.
segregation (metallurgy)
to practice favoritism
(calligraphy) technique in which the shaft of the brush is held at a low angle, so that the tip of the brush runs along the edge of the stroke (cf. 正鋒|正锋 and 側鋒|侧锋) / (fig.) unorthodox or improper way of doing things
polarizing filter
extreme (usu. of thoughts, speech, circumstances)
paranoid (psych.)
bias / deviation
HSK 7-9
polarized wave
(of a ship or aircraft) to deviate from its course / (aviation) to yaw
bias / partiality / to be partial
to be partial; to favor
polarization (of waves)
military auxiliaries (archaic)
to favor a junior / to show favoritism to some juniors
polarized light
bias (statistics)
partial eclipse
to bare one shoulder / (fig.) to side with / to discriminate in favor of
to write with the tip of the brush tilted / (fig.) to resort to devious means
partial differential equation (PDE)
one-sided words / prejudice / flattery
(math.) eccentricity
Pride and Prejudice, novel by Jane Austen 珍·奧斯汀|珍·奥斯汀
talent in a particular area
to correct an error
extremely (stubborn, contrary, disobedient etc)
motorbike with sidecar
biasing (electronics) / bias voltage
offset distance
the sword moves with side stroke (modern idiom) / fig. unexpected winning move / unconventional gambit
deputy general
(biology) to have a commensal relationship with (another organism)
(math.) partial differential / (math.) partial derivative
to insist on doing sth / must do it, despite everything
angle of drift (navigation) / deflection (from course) / angle of divergence
to give unequal emphasis to / doing some things at the expense of others
skewness (math)
biased / prejudiced (idiom)
when it rains, it pours (idiom)
offset / biasing (electronics) / bias voltage
(aviation) yaw axis
to stress in a prejudiced way / to emphasize sth unduly
bias impedance (electronics)
selective listening / to hear what one wants to hear
to show favoritism against sb / to treat unfairly
biased; partial
polarizing lens / polarizer
side palace hall / side chamber
to stress in a prejudiced way / to emphasize sth unduly
selfish preference
modified compound word
prejudiced / narrow-minded
partial eclipse of the sun
polarization / polarized
side door / doing things by the side door (i.e. dishonestly)
old-style cycle with lateral third wheel and passenger seat
bias current (electronics)
polarizing filter
partial eclipse of the moon
to protect a croney / to give unprincipled support
(biology) to have a commensal relationship with (another organism)

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