He looked at the proposal with jaundiced eyes, refusing to see any merit in it. 他带着偏见的目光看待这个提案,拒绝承认它有任何优点。
After years of broken promises from politicians, the voters had grown jaundiced about the entire electoral process, dismissing every new policy as mere rhetoric. 在经历了多年政客们一再食言之后,选民们对整个选举过程变得愤世嫉俗,将每一项新政策都斥为空洞的说辞。
莎士比亚在《威尼斯商人》(The Merchant of Venice)中使用了与黄疸相关的意象来暗示偏见与嫉妒。
亚历山大蒲柏(Alexander Pope)在《批评论》(An Essay on Criticism)中写道:"All looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye",意为"在偏见者的眼中,一切都染上了黄色",这句话成为英语中的经典名句,也使 jaundiced eye 成为固定表达。