| 单词 | 选举 |
| 释义 | 〔lottery〕A selection made by lot from a number of applicants or competitors:抓阄法：在多个应选者或竞争者中通过抓阄来选举：〔coverage〕complete news coverage of the election.关于选举的全部新闻报道〔turn〕"The election would turn not on ideology but on competence"(George F. Will)“选举将取决于竞争力而非空论”(乔治F.威尔)〔participle〕The "dangling participle" is quite common in speech,where it often passes unremarked;but its use in writing can lead to unintentional absurdities,as in He went to watch his horse take a turn around the track carrying a copy of the breeders' guide under his arm. Even when the construction occasions no ambiguity,it is likely to distract the reader,who will ordinarily be operating on the assumption that a participle or other modifying phrase will be associated with the noun phrase that is immediately adjacent to it.Thus the sentenceTurning the corner, the view was quite different would be better rewritten as The view was quite different when we turned the corner or Turning the corner, we saw a different view. · A number of expressions originally derived from active participles are now well established as prepositions of a kind,and these may be used freely to introduce phrases that are not associated with the immediately adjacent noun phrase.Such expressions includeconcerning, considering, failing, granting, judging by, and speaking of. Thus one may writeSpeaking of politics, the elections have been postponed or Considering the hour, it is surprising that he arrived at all. “不连结分词”在口语中十分常见，只是常常被忽略；但它在书面中却会无意地导致语义模糊，如：他胳膊下夹着一本饲养员指南书去看他的马转过跑道的拐弯处。 即使这种结构不会产生语义不清，它也很可能迷惑读者，他们通常会假定分词或其它的修饰性短语会跟其紧接的名词性短语相联系。这样，最好把句子转弯后，景色大为不同 写成 我们一转弯就发现景色大为不同 或 转弯后我们看到景色大为不同。 · 一些最初由主动分词派生出来的表达方式现在已经作为某类介词而被固定下来，这些表达方式可以用来引入一些与紧接的名词短语没有联系的短语，这些表达方式包括concerning，considering，failing，granting，judging by 和 speaking of。 由此我们就可以这样写考虑到政治因素，将选举延期了 或 就时间来说，他在任何情况下到来都令人惊讶 〔horserace〕"The election appears now to be a horse race"(New York Times)“现在，选举看起来象一场激烈的竞赛”(纽约时报)〔junk〕"the junk issues that have dominated this year's election"(New Republic)“支配本年度选举的华而不实的议题”(新共和国)〔Clarke〕American religious reformer, abolitionist, and advocate of woman suffrage.克拉克，詹姆斯·弗里曼：(1810-1888) 美国宗教改革者、废奴主义者和妇女参加选举的支持者〔constituent〕Empowered to elect or designate.任命：被授权选举或任命的〔tribune〕An officer of ancient Rome elected by the plebeians to protect their rights from arbitrary acts of the patrician magistrates.保民官：古代罗马平民选举产生的保护他们的权利免受贵族地方行政官专横行为侵害的官员〔delegation〕The act of delegating.代表的委派，代表的选举〔vote〕The result of an election or a referendum.投票结果：一次选举或公民投票的结果〔electorate〕The dignity or territory of an elector of the Holy Roman Empire.选帝侯的身份或领地：德国有权参加选举神圣罗马帝国皇帝的王侯的身份或领地〔incumbent〕defeated the incumbent in a close election.在一场势均力敌的选举中击败在职者〔ride〕The final outcome rides on the results of the election.最终结论依靠选举的结果〔must〕Citizens must register in order to vote.为了进行选举，公民们必须登记〔ballot〕A sheet of paper or a card used to cast or register a vote, especially a secret one.投票用纸：选举中用于投票或登记的一张纸或卡片，尤指无记名投票的〔Stone〕American feminist and social reformer who organized the first national women's rights convention, held in Worcester, Massachusetts (1850), and was a founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association (1869).斯通，露西：(1818-1893) 美国女权主义者和社会改革家，她组织了于马萨诸塞州的伍斯特举行的全美第一届妇女权利大会(1850年），是美国妇女选举联合会(1869年）的组建者〔suffragan〕A bishop elected or appointed as an assistant to the bishop or ordinary of a diocese, having administrative and episcopal responsibilities but no jurisdictional functions.副主教：选举或任命的主教的助手或教区主教的助手，有管理和协助主教的任务，但没有司法权〔tendentious〕a tendentious account of the recent elections.对近期选举有偏见的报导〔conclave〕The meeting held to elect a new pope.选举新教皇的会议〔elective〕elective office.由选举产生的职位〔gerrymander〕"An official statement of the returns of voters for senators give[s] twenty nine friends of peace, and eleven gerrymanders.”So reported the May 12, 1813, edition of theMassachusetts Spy. A gerrymander sounds like a strange political beast,which in fact it is, considered from a historical perspective.This beast was named by combining the wordsalamander, "a small lizardlike amphibian,” with the last name of Elbridge Gerry, a former governor of Massachusetts— a state noted for its varied, often colorful political fauna.Gerry (whose name, incidentally, was pronounced with a hardg, though gerrymander is now commonly pronounced with a soft g ) was immortalized in this way because an election district created by members of his party in 1812 looked like a salamander.According to one version of howgerrymander was coined, the shape of the district attracted the eye of the painter Gilbert Stuart,who noticed it on a map hanging in a newspaper editor's office.Stuart decorated the map with a head, wings, and clawsand then said to the editor, "That will do for a salamander!”"Gerrymander!” came the reply.A new political beast was created then and there.The word is first recorded in April 1812 with respect to the creature or its caricature,but it soon came to mean not only "the action of shaping a district to gain political advantage"but also "any representative elected from such a district by that method.”Within the same yeargerrymander was also recorded as a verb. “一份答复参议员选举人的官方声明宣布了二十九个和平伙伴和十一个不公正划分的选区。”在1813年3月12日的一期马萨诸塞州观察报 上有如上报导。 一个不公正划分选区听起来象是一个奇怪的政治怪兽，事实上它是来自历史上的观点。这个怪兽是由两个词合并而命名的，即salamander “一种蜥蜴状的两栖动物，”及马萨诸塞州州长埃尔布里奇·格里的姓。 而马萨诸萨州以其多变的、通常多姿多彩的政治动物群而闻名。格里（他的名字碰巧发重音g， 尽管 gerrymander 现在普遍发轻音 g， ）以此种方式而垂名史册， 因为1812年由他所在党成员组建的选举区就象一只蝾螈。根据一种gerrymander 如何被创造的观点， 该区的形状吸引了一位画家基尔伯特·斯图亚特，他在一家报纸的主编办公室里挂在墙上的地图中发现了它。斯图尔特又画上头、翅膀和爪子，然后对主编说，“那就象只蝾螈了！”"Gerrymander！”主编回答道。此时此地一个新的政治怪兽产生了。这个词于1812年4月首次被记录是在谈到这种牲畜或讽刺的画中，但很快，它就不仅意味“为赢得政治优势的改变区划的行动”，而且有“用此种方法选出的任何代表”的意思。同年gerrymander 也被作为一个动词而记载下来 〔majority〕When it refers to a group of persons or things that are in the majority,it may take either a singular or plural verb,depending on whether the group is considered as a whole or as a set of people considered individually.So we sayThe majority elects (not elect ) the candidate it wants (not they want ), since the election is accomplished by the group as a whole;butThe majority of the voters live (not lives ) in the city, since living in the city is something that each voter does individually. ·Majority is often preceded by great (but not by greater ) in expressing emphatically the sense of "most of": 当它是指处于多数地位的一组人或事物时，其动词既可以用单数也可以用复数，取决于把这个集体当作一个整体来看待还是当作个别的人的组合。所以我们说大多数人选举了 （不用 elect ) 他们所想要的候选人 （不用 they want )， 因为选举是由一个作为整体的群体所完成的；但是大多数投票者住在 （不用 lives ) 市区， 因为住在城市里是每个投票人作为个人所做的事情。Majority 的前面往往加一个 great （但是不加 greater )， 用来强调指出“大多数”的含义： 〔over〕selected him over all the others.比起别人更愿选举他〔return〕Often returns A report on the vote in an election. 常作 returns 选举公告：在选举中的选票报告〔crucial〕a crucial election.See Synonyms at decisive 决定性选举 参见 decisive〔nonelected〕powerful nonelected bureaucrats.非常有权力的非经选举产生的官员们〔fragment〕After the election, the coalition fragmented.选举之后，联盟瓦解了〔zemstvo〕An elective council responsible for the local administration of a provincial district in czarist Russia.地方自治机构：俄国沙皇时代由选举产生的委员会，其负责省属区域的地方行政管理〔Lozier〕American physician and feminist. She founded (1863) the New York Medical College and Hospital for Women and led (1877-1878) the National Woman Suffrage Association.洛丝尔，克雷芒斯·索菲娅·哈恩德：(1813-1888) 美国医生和女权主义者，她建立了纽约医学院和妇女医院(1863年）并领导了全国妇女选举协会(1877-1878年）〔white〕voting patterns within the white population.白种人内部的选举方式〔farce〕The election was a farce, for it was fixed.这次选举是一幕闹剧，因为它是预先安排好的〔ward〕A division of a city or town, especially an electoral district, for administrative and representative purposes.选区：城市或城镇内的分区，尤指选区，为方便管理与选举而设〔fixed〕a fixed election.预先安排好结果的选举〔rise〕She rose to the occasion and won the election.她抓住时机振奋精神，一举赢得了选举〔elector〕One of the German princes of the Holy Roman Empire entitled to elect the emperor.选帝侯：有权参加选举神圣罗马帝国皇帝的日耳曼王侯〔clean〕a clean voting record.无不良现象的选举记录〔call〕It is often difficult to call the outcome of an election.See Synonyms at predict 预测选举的结果常常是困难的 参见 predict〔challenge〕A claim that a vote is invalid or that a voter is unqualified.选举无效的声明：声称某一投票无效或某一投票人不合格〔swing〕swing an election.使选举达到预期结果 |
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