predilection: implies a strong liking derived from temperament or experience: teenagers with a ~ for gory horror movies.      如his predilection for fast cars and fast horses他对跑车和骏马的偏爱to like something very much


prepossession: suggests a fixed conception likely to preclude objective judgement of anything counter (adj) to it: a slave to his own ~.   这个词除表示偏见先入观念，也可表示着迷，即强烈喜欢=predilection


prejudice: usually implies an unfavorable prepossesion and connotes a feeling that is rooted in suspicion, fear or intolerance: strong ~ that are based on neither reason nor experience.   如racial/gender/religious prejudice种族/性别/宗教偏见，如ignorance/pride and prejudice无知/傲慢与偏见


bias: implies an unreasoned and unfair distortion of judgement in favor of or against a person or thing: the society shows a ~ against overweight people.    可表示正面或负面，如political bias政治偏袒，be impartial without bias公正不偏袒，如physics has a strong practical bias物理偏重实用，he has a bias toward math他数学偏科，负面如bias against women对妇女的偏见


predilection偏爱: 表示强烈喜欢, 由于性格或经历, prepossession偏见先入观念: 持有的固定观念，使人不能客观判断，prejudice偏见:  即负面的成见，源于怀疑害怕狭隘(intolerance不包容容忍）， bias偏见: 正面或负面，都表示不合理不公平


记忆方法： 1）首字母PPPB想成偏不偏？偏！<==有偏见

           2）练习一下

           3）偏见的意思是[color=#ff0
000]预设立场的态度mean an attitude of mind that predisposes one to favor something or take a stand without full consideration or knowledge.首字母PPPB想成偏不偏？偏！<==有偏见     predispose提前影响，使倾向于: 表示该影响力很早之前就已存在implies the existence of disposing influence in advance，如fictional violence predisposes them to accept violence in real life虚构的暴力使他们更容易接受现实的暴力.