词汇 | unfairness |
释义 | unfairness noun[ U ] uk /ʌnˈfeə.nəs/ us /ʌnˈfer.nəs/ the quality or fact of not treating people in an equal way, or of being morally wrong: 不公平,不公正;不正当 The Act does not really address the fundamental unfairness of the system.该法案并没有真正解决制度的根本不公平问题。 They can recall the lasting resentment caused by a teacher's blatant unfairness.他们可以回忆起老师公然的不公平造成的持久的怨恨。 See unfair She promised us that we would never have to face the unfairness of life alone. The suffragettes highlighted the unfairness of denying women the vote. You are a born peacemaker who cannot bear injustice or unfairness. Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly ableism ableist agism agist Anglocentric discrimination discriminative discriminatorily discriminatory drumhead one-sided one-sidedly one-sidedness one-way the old school tie tokenize two-tier unbalance unequal unequally Examples of unfairnessunfairness Since a claim is a duty owed particularly to the person, the unfairness is plainly suffered by that person. But this unfairness of unregulated labor markets is simply taken for granted, and the "fair" level of financing for social programs is left unspecified. Attempts to compensate the initial unlucky ones in a subsequent divine realm would create further unfairness. At the same time, however, the public-fee medical care project for governmental employees remained intact, eliciting charges of unfairness from aggrieved citizens. We also find that small age-related variations in the degree of actuarial unfairness would not significantly affect the optimal age. It is unfairness: unfairness done to 1,000 people who are not saved. An increase in the degree of actuarial unfairness has the effect of inducing a delay in annuitization and a reduction in the amount annuitized. It therefore cannot ameliorate the unfairness of the social or natural lotteries. Thus, according to the strict account of unfairness, unfairness cannot be outweighed by any amount of good, obtained by allowing the unfairness. In addition, even if we could determine which inequalities involve comparative unfairness, it is extremely difficult to determine how bad a situation's inequality is. On the other hand, the moderate account of unfairness allows a tradeoff between unfairness and other considerations. It may be better to save someone than no one, even if doing so involves some unfairness. In the second scenario, the people are the victims of natural unfairness. At the same time, the legal issue presupposes the moral one and the presumption of unfairness. This implies that unfairness can be outweighed by a sufficient amount of good. See all examples of unfairness These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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