Definition
偏执 describes a person who is stubbornly fixed on their own opinions, often with suspicion or intolerance of others. It can mean 'bigoted' in social contexts, and in psychology it refers to paranoid personality traits. As a stative verb, it can be used attributively or predicatively.
s.v.
(stative verb) stubborn and biasedbigoted(stative verb, psychology) paranoid
Examples
- 偏执，。Tā duì biérén de yìjiàn fēicháng piān zhí, hěn nán shuōfú.He is very stubborn about others' opinions and hard to convince.
- 偏执。Zhè zhǒng piān zhí de xìnggé ràng tā shīqù le hěn duō péngyou.This paranoid personality made him lose many friends.
- 偏执。Tā yīnwèi piān zhí de xiǎngfǎ ér jùjué le suǒyǒu de bāngzhù.She rejected all help because of her bigoted ideas.
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