lopsided的意思|lopsided的解释-里氏词典

lopsided [lɒp'saidid]

a. 倾向一方的, 不平衡的

lopsided

[ adj ]

having one side lower or smaller or lighter than the other

<adj.all>

turned or twisted toward one side

<adj.all>

a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry

his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff

Lopsided \Lop"sid`ed\, a. [Lop + side. Cf. {Lobsided}.]
1. Leaning to one side because of some defect of structure;
as, a lopsided ship. --Marryat.

2. Unbalanced; poorly proportioned; having much more on one
side than the other; -- also used metaphorically; as, a
lopsided victory.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

3. Full of idiosyncrasies. --J. S. Mill.

The House on Thursday gave lopsided bipartisan approval to a $7.1 billion election-year package of minor tax changes that would benefit farmers, mutual-fund owners, free-lance writers and rural mail carriers.
Spokeswoman Phyllis Oakley said the department was "not surprised" by the outcome of Sunday's election, which Stroesser won by a lopsided margin.
Denmark became the first country to give homosexual couples legal status when Parliament approved a gay rights bill in May by a lopsided majority.
The result is a lopsided trade imbalance in South Korea's favor _ about $10 billion last year on total two-way trade of slightly more than $30 billion.
It was lopsided, but Denver needed to be taught a lesson, to be told where San Francisco was coming from." On Monday, the team will be honored with a parade down Market Street.
She said a lopsided swap in 1985 in which 1,050 Arabs were released for three Israeli POWs planted the seeds for the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
He needs 1,139 to win the nomination, so he's more than halfway there and leads his nearest rival, Sen. Dole, by a lopsided 3-to-1 margin.
They represent a position that in many cases isn't popular here, but they provide a balance in a state that at times can become lopsided on given issues."
The settlement was approved by union local presidents last night in a lopsided 38-4 vote.
Such lopsided odds can mean large-scale loneliness.
It's bad." A far-reaching clean air bill goes to the House floor after clearing a committee by a lopsided 42-1 vote, moving Congress a step closer to enacting tougher air pollution controls.
The House rebuffed the industry by a suprisingly lopsided 326-94 vote after Bush threatened to veto the bill if it included a weakening amendment offered by Rep. Henry J. Hyde, R-Ill.
Another former rival, Bruce Babbitt, said he too would bestow his blessing today. "I'll call him in the morning and tell him," the former Arizona governor said Tuesday night in San Francisco, as Dukakis was scoring a lopsided victory in California.
In a reminder that there still was a race for the Republican nomination, however lopsided, Pat Robertson captured the lion's share of 20 delegates chosen Saturday at the Nevada Republican Convention.
It's rare that a presidential nominee is turned back by the Senate, but the vote was more lopsided than expected. Democratic leaders Sens. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas and Daniel Moynihan of New York voted with the president.
With Sukarnoism making a comeback among youth, Sugiarso said, his book is intended to balance what he called a lopsided view of history fostered by the country's founding generation.
This still left the Republicans with a cumulative edge of Dollars 96.2m to Dollars 69.8m, but it means Mr Clinton has not been short of funds in the home stretch, where it matters. The electoral map has also begun to look less lopsided.
True, the scales remain grossly lopsided.
Despite the lopsided vote, bolstered by several dozen Republicans, the Reagan administration has threatened to veto the bill as too costly.
Trading was heavy and nearly as lopsided as the previous Monday's.
Alabama went for President Reagan in 1980 and 1984, and Bush was the lopsided favorite over Democrat Michael Dukakis in a series of polls over the past two months.
Retired educator Louis Saavedra won a lopsided victory Wednesday over City Councilor Pat Baca in the runoff election for mayor of Albuquerque, pulling down more than 60 percent of the vote.
Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., said he worries about the lopsided nature of the international force in Saudi Arabia.
Newley himself, a mannered and limited performer, likes to sing with slouched posture, his shoulders lopsided and hunched and his eyes shut.
His managerial skills already have been put to the test as he carefully assembled on weary treks a lopsided majority to support the resolution.
But the bill has drawn fire from the business community for a provision that would make employers end disparate, or lopsided, hiring practices or prove in court that they were justified by business necessity.
The Senate launched efforts to find a compromise on broad banking legislation in the wake of a lopsided defeat of such a bill in the House.
The GM-UAW agreement was ratified a week ago in a lopsided 80 percent to 20 percent vote.
Mr Delors believed the Irishman was going beyond what was compatible with this year's reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), and was on the point of clinching a deal which would be lopsided in America's favour.
That focus on takeovers may provide some boost to stock prices, he said, "but the flow of cash into the market is erratic and lopsided.

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