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1. N-COUNT A vote is a choice made by a particular person or group in a meeting or an election. 選票

He walked to the local polling place to cast his vote. 他走到當(dāng)?shù)氐耐镀秉c(diǎn)去投票。

Mr. Reynolds was re-elected by 102 votes to 60. 雷諾茲先生以102票對(duì)60票再次當(dāng)選。

2. N-COUNT Avote is an occasion when a group of people make a decision by each person indicating his or her choice. The choice that most people support is accepted by the group. 投票表決

Why do you think we should have a vote on that?

你為什么認(rèn)為我們應(yīng)該對(duì)那件事進(jìn)行投票表決？

3. N-SING Thevote is the total number of votes or voters in an election, or the number of votes received or cast by a particular group. 投票總數(shù); 得票總數(shù)

Opposition parties won about fifty-five percent of the vote. 反對(duì)黨贏得大約55％的選票。

4. N-SING If you have the vote in an election, or have a vote in a meeting, you have the legal right to indicate your choice. 選舉權(quán)

Before that, women did not have a vote at all. 在那之前，婦女根本就沒有選舉權(quán)。

5. V-T/V-I When you vote, you indicate your choice officially at a meeting or in an election, for example, by raising your hand or writing on a piece of paper. 投票; 表決

Two-thirds of the national electorate had the chance to vote in these elections. 全國2/3的選民有機(jī)會(huì)在這些選舉中投票。

Nearly two-thirds of this group voted for Buchanan. 這一組幾乎2/3的人將票投給了布坎南。

The residents of Leningrad voted to restore the city's original name of St. Petersburg. 列寧格勒的居民投票贊成恢復(fù)該市原來的名字圣彼得堡。

6. votingN-UNCOUNT 投票

Voting began about two hours ago. 投票開始于約兩個(gè)小時(shí)前。

7. V-T If you vote a particular political party or leader, or vote yes or no, you make that choice with the vote that you have. 投票支持

52.5% of those questioned said they'd vote Republican. 52.5%的受訪者說他們將投票支持共和黨。

8. V-T If people vote someone a particular title, they choose that person to have that title. 投票授予…稱號(hào)

His class voted him the man "who had done the most for Yale."

他所在的班級(jí)投票授予他“耶魯最大貢獻(xiàn)者”稱號(hào)。

9. PHRASE If you vote with your feet, you show that you do not support something by leaving the place where it is happening or leaving the organization that is supporting it. (以離去或退出的方式) 反對(duì)

Thousands of citizens are already voting with their feet, and leaving the country. 成千上萬的公民已表明了他們的反對(duì)意見，要離開這個(gè)國家。

10. PHRASE If you say, for example, "I vote that we go" or "I vote we stay," you are suggesting that you should go or stay. 我建議[非正式]

I vote that we all go to Houston immediately. 我建議我們都馬上去休斯敦。

11. PHRASE One man one vote or one person one vote is a system of voting in which every person in a group or country has the right to cast their vote, and in which each individual's vote is counted and has equal value. 一人一票制

Mr. Gould called for a move toward "one man one vote."

古爾德先生要求向“一人一票”制邁出一步。