late 15c., "to turn aside" (intransitive), from Old North French eskiuer "shy away from, avoid," Old French eschiver (see eschew). Transitive sense of "turn (something) aside" is from 1570s. Meaning "depict unfairly" first recorded 1872, on notion of being "give oblique direction to," hence "to distort, to make slant." Statistical sense dates from 1929. Related: Skewed; skewing. The adjectival meaning "slanting, turned to one side" is recorded from c. 1600, from the verb; noun meaning "slant, deviation" first attested 1680s.
雙語例句
1. to skew the statistics
影響統計數字的準確性
來自《權威詞典》
2. The picture on the wall is a bIt'skew.
墻上的畫有點歪.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. Today's election will skew the results in favor of the northern end of the county.
今天的選舉將使結果有利于這個郡的北部地區。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The picture on the wall is a bit skew.
墻上的畫有點歪。
來自辭典例句
5. It is bent and twisted into the shape of a skew curve.