新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

voteIELTS重点词汇

英 [vəʊt]

[NOUN, VERB]

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NOUN. 名词

votes
1. [SING 单数型名词] 选票
A vote is a choice made by a particular person or group in a meeting or an election.
双语例句
例：
He walked to the local polling place to cast his vote.
他走到当地的投票处投了票。
例：
Mr Reynolds was re-elected by 102 votes to 60.
雷诺兹先生以102票对60票再次当选。
例：
The government got a massive majority – well over 400 votes.
政府得票数大大超过400张，以压倒多数获胜。。
2. [C 可数名词] 投票表决
A vote 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.
双语例句
例：
Why do you think we should have a vote on that?
你为什么认为我们应该就那件事进行投票表决？
3. [SING 单数型名词] 投票总数 , 得票总数
The vote is the total number of votes or voters in an election, or the number of votes received or cast by a particular group.
双语例句
例：
Opposition parties won about fifty-five per cent of the vote.
反对党赢得大约55％的选票。
例：
The vote was strongly in favour of the Democratic Party.
投票结果对民主党极为有利。
例：
a huge majority of the white male vote.
绝大多数的白人男性的选票。
4. [SING 单数型名词] 选举权
If you have the vote in an election, or have a vote in a meeting, you have the legal right to indicate your choice.
近义词
ballot
双语例句
例：
Before that, women did not have a vote at all.
在那之前，妇女根本就没有选举权。

PHRASE. 习语

one man one vote
1. 一人一票制
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.
双语例句
例：
Mr Gould called for a move towards 'one man one vote'.
古尔德先生号召实行“一人一票制”。
vote with your feet
1. （以离去或退出的方式）反对
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.
双语例句
例：
Thousands of citizens are already voting with their feet, and leaving the country.
成千上万的公民已表明了他们的反对意见，要离开这个国家。
I vote
1. 我建议
If you say, for example, 'I vote that we go' or 'I vote we stay', you are suggesting that you should go or stay.
双语例句
例：
I vote that we all go to Houston immediately.
我建议我们都马上去休斯敦。

VERB. 动词

votes , voting , voted
1. [I 不及物动词] 投票 , 表决
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.
双语例句
例：
Two-thirds of the national electorate had the chance to vote in these elections.
全国2/3的选民有机会在这些选举中投票。
例：
Nearly two-thirds of this group voted for Buchanan.
这一组几乎2/3的人将票投给了布坎南。
例：
The residents of Leningrad voted to restore the city's original name of St Petersburg.
列宁格勒的居民投票赞成恢复该市原来的名字圣彼得堡。
2. [T 及物动词] 投票支持
If you vote a particular political party or leader, or vote yes or no, you make that choice with the vote that you have.
双语例句
例：
52.5 of those questioned said they'd vote Republican.
52.5的受访者说他们将投票支持共和党。
3. [T 及物动词] 投票授予…称号
If people vote someone a particular title, they choose that person to have that title.
近义词
elect
双语例句
例：
His class voted him the man 'who had done the most for Yale'.
他被班里评选为“为耶鲁作出最大贡献”的人。