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 discrimination [dɪ`skrɪmə'neʃən]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 差别, 岐视, 辨别力

[化] 鉴别

[医] 歧视, 辨别

[经] 差别待遇


  1. We are strongly opposed to racial discrimination.
    我们强烈反对种族歧视。
  2. We should not have racial discrimination.
    我们不该有种族歧视。
  3. The racial discrimination issue is a political hot potato.
    种族歧视问题是政治上的棘手问题.


discrimination
[ noun ]
  1. unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice

    2. <noun.act>
  2. the cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished

    3. <noun.cognition>


Discrimination \Dis*crim`i*na"tion\, n. [L. discriminatio the
contrasting of opposite thoughts.]
1. The act of discriminating, distinguishing, or noting and
marking differences.

To make an anxious discrimination between the
miracle absolute and providential. --Trench.

2. The state of being discriminated, distinguished, or set
apart. --Sir J. Reynolds.

3. (Railroads) The arbitrary imposition of unequal tariffs
for substantially the same service.

A difference in rates, not based upon any
corresponding difference in cost, constitutes a case
of discrimination. --A. T.
Hadley.

4. The quality of being discriminating; faculty of nicely
distinguishing; acute discernment; as, to show great
discrimination in the choice of means.

5. That which discriminates; mark of distinction.

Syn: Discernment; penetration; clearness; acuteness;
judgment; distinction. See {Discernment}.

  1. In a decision that could bolster the rights of AIDS victims, the justices ruled 7-2 that people with contagious diseases are covered by a federal law that prohibits discrimination against the handicapped in federally aided programs.
  2. In the early 1980s, Ford reached a $23 million EEOC settlement and GM a $44.5 million settlement, both for discrimination against women and minorities.
  3. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr. urged lawyers and judges to fight discrimination in an address kicking off a yearlong celebration of the bicentennial of the federal court system.
  4. McCain said Congress has enough problems at the moment without exempting itself from laws that eliminate bias and discrimination.
  5. The act reinstated federal protection against discrimination on the basis of sex, race, age or disability that had been curtailed by a 1984 Supreme Court decision.
  6. The first lawsuit filed under a new law prohibiting housing discrimination against families with children was filed Tuesday against the owners of a New Jersey apartment complex.
  7. "It's a landmark decision because discrimination against Hispanics in this society is pervasive," said Antonio Silva, co-counsel for the agents in the class action suit.
  8. The authority has filed an appeal in state Supreme Court claiming insufficient evidence of discrimination and that the award was excessive.
  9. "None of us had been aware that the book contained racial discrimination until it was pointed out," said the official, on condition of anonymity.
  10. "I hope by going to the South he will see what's happened in a region where there was discrimination, segregation," Lewis said. "He will be in a region of the country that was a lot like South Africa just a few years ago.
  11. Congress imposed the sanctions because of South Africa's policy of racial discrimination against its non-white majority, overriding a veto by President Reagan in the process.
  12. De Klerk says he is committed to ending discrimination, but major apartheid laws, including measures providing for segregated neighborhoods and schools, remain in force.
  13. The State Equal Rights Division is investigating to determine if Ms. Dew was a victim of discrimination, said John Kimble, program supervisor of investigation in the agency Milwaukee office.
  14. "After reviewing two years of the publication, I began wondering what all the fuss was about." Palmer said he undertook the review after Freedman raised questions of discrimination.
  15. "Our new authority to seek damages allows us to provide a complete remedy for victims of housing discrimination, and the civil penalty provision can constitute a signficant deterrent to such discrimination," Thornburgh said.
  16. "Our new authority to seek damages allows us to provide a complete remedy for victims of housing discrimination, and the civil penalty provision can constitute a signficant deterrent to such discrimination," Thornburgh said.
  17. "It's discrimination," says Hannelore Wass, a University of Florida professor who has studied the media's depiction of the elderly.
  18. In addition, however, legislators are grappling with questions about health-care costs, confidentiality and discrimination, among many others.
  19. Ultimately, OCR devoted less than 10% of its resources to discrimination against blacks, while women got one third and the handicapped more than half.
  20. "This is sex discrimination," he said, pointing out the inconsistency of laws that permit an infertile man to arrange a pregnancy through a sperm donor but deny the same right to an infertile woman.
  21. The four employees' case was believed to be the first discrimination lawsuit against a newspaper to go to trial.
  22. Advocates of the bill contend it would reverse several Supreme Court decisions that made it harder for plaintiffs to win discrimination cases.
  23. The Scottish Conservative party manifesto states clearly that racial discrimination has no part in our society.' Lord Whitelaw also distanced himself from Sir Nicholas's speech and said he was cancelling his planned visit to the constituency today.
  24. Vento was acquitted of the first murder count; a weapons possession charge; one count of unlawful imprisonment; and five counts of discrimination.
  25. But many state affirmative action programs are voluntary, have goals rather than mandatory targets for minority participation, or were based on evidence of discrimination, said a sampling of officials contacted by The Associated Press.
  26. But U.S. District Court Judge Michael Mukasey in Manhattan ruled that, "though plaintiffs' evidence of discrimination is extremely thin, it exists, albeit barely," and that a trial should be held.
  27. Attorney Gary Poliakoff of Fort Lauderdale contends the act encourages discrimination against the 18- to 55-year-olds who live in adult communities, and probably won't open much existing housing to children.
  28. U.S. District Judge James Alesia, who presided over the trial, is considering a second claim by the employees that they were also victims of discrimination against non-Japanese employees.
  29. Practically speaking, the result will be a more difficult burden of proof for employers that are sued for unintentional discrimination.
  30. It also seeks compensation for white men who were the victims of the alleged discrimination.
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