voting

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

He walked to the local polling place to cast his vote. 他走到当地的投票点去投票。

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。

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. 投票表决

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

你为什么认为我们应该对那件事进行投票表决？

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. 投票总数; 得票总数

Opposition parties won about fifty-five percent of the vote. 反对党赢得大约55％的选票。

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. 选举权

Before that, women did not have a vote at all. 在那之前，妇女根本就没有选举权。

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; 表决

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。

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。

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。

6. votingN-UNCOUNT 投票

Voting began about two hours ago. 投票开始于约两个小时前。

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%的受访者说他们将投票支持共和党。

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

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

他所在的班级投票授予他“耶鲁最大贡献者”称号。

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. (以离去或退出的方式) 反对

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。

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. 我建议[非正式]

I vote that we all go to Houston immediately. 我建议我们都马上去休斯敦。

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."

古尔德先生要求向“一人一票”制迈出一步。