predilection: implies a strong liking deriving from one's temperament or experience: teenagers with a ~ for gory horror movies. 表示强烈喜欢、或叫偏爱to like something very much，如his predilection for fast cars and fast horses他对跑车和骏马的偏爱
prepossession: suggests a fixed conception likely to preclude objective judgment of anything counter to it: a slave to his own ~s. 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 rooted in suspicion, fear or intolerance: strong ~s that are based upon 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 judgment in favor of or against a person or thing: 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成见先入观念: 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: 不公平合理的曲解判断，无论正面或负面
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. |
