2008年2月19日 星期二

skew, paint a bleak/gloomy/rosy, etc. picture of sth

paint a bleak/gloomy/rosy, etc. picture of sth
to describe something in a particular way:
He painted a rosy picture of family life.
She paints a gloomy picture of the future.

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

All three sites base at least some school-evaluation results on test scores, a point that some of their users critique. Parents and teachers, alike, point out that testing doesn't always paint an accurate picture of a school and can be skewed by various unacknowledged factors, such as the number of students with disabilities.


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verb [T]
to cause something to be not straight or exact; to twist or distort:
The company's results for this year are skewed because not all our customers have paid their bills.

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adjective [after verb]
not straight

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

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