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 elective [ɪ'lɛktɪv]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 选举的, 根据选举的, 选修的

n. 选修课程

[医] 选择的


  1. She is taking French as an elective next year.
    她明年选修法语.
  2. Elective courses are the ones that you get to choose for yourself.
    选修课则是你替你自己所选的课程。
  3. Besides the required courses, I'm taking an elective in the Lab Science.
    除必修科目外，选修科目我选了实验科学。


elective
[ noun ]
  1. a course that the student can select from among alternatives

    2. <noun.act>
[ adj ]
  1. subject to popular election

    2. <adj.all>
    elective official
  2. not compulsory

    3. <adj.all>
    elective surgery
    an elective course of study


Elective \E*lect"ive\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]lectif.]
1. Exerting the power of choice; selecting; as, an elective
act.

2. Pertaining to, or consisting in, choice, or right of
choosing; electoral.

The independent use of their elective franchise.
--Bancroft.

3. Bestowed or passing by election; as, an elective office.

Kings of Rome were at first elective; . . . for such
are the conditions of an elective kingdom. --Dryden.

4. Dependent on choice; that can be refused; as, an elective
college course. Opposite of {required} or {mandatory}.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

{Elective affinity} or {Elective attraction} (Chem.), a
tendency to unite with certain things; chemism.


Elective \E*lect"ive\, n.
In an American college, an optional study or course of study;
a course that is not required. [Colloq.]

  1. The chamber has become uncharacteristically volatile because of an extraordinary constitutional development: the elective dictatorship is no longer very dictatorial.
  2. Proposition 103 strengthens the office and seeks to sever its ties with the industry by making it an elective position, starting next year. Until then, Gillespie occupies a particularly sensitive post because of the court ruling.
  3. Doctors call for fewer transfusions, and more people opt for donating their own blood prior to elective surgery.
  4. Responded Campbell: "I voted with Edwin Edwards when he was right and when he was wrong I voted against him." Campbell noted that McCrery only recently switched from the Democratic party to the GOP and has never held elective office.
  5. California has the largest Hispanic population in the country _ 6.6 million or 33.9 percent of the nationwide Hispanic population _ and 466 hold elective office.
  6. He spent his government career in economic posts and never held elective office.
  7. The House of Commons has approved a bill that would make all candidates for local and national elective office in Northern Ireland sign a declaration disavowing violence.
  8. After losing the Democratic primary in March, she vowed not to seek elective office again.
  9. He insisted, however, that Russia's progress towards elective democracy and a market economy was more important to the US's strategic interests. 'Events in Russia over the past few weeks have revived our fears about the future.
  10. The leaders of both parties are contenders for first prize in the elective dictatorship stakes.
  11. City hospitals have become so crowded that they have suspended elective admissions and the state has provided them with lists of where the few available beds are.
  12. Batson said some clinics were closed for the duration of the walkout, and some elective surgery has been postponed.
  13. Oklahoma voters enacted the nation's first sweeping limit on how long politicians can hold elective office, but in Massachusetts they did it the old fashioned way and threw them out.
  14. But the Canadian Senate is not elective.
  15. After the signing of the Joint Declaration Hong Kong wanted a rapid introduction of elective democracy.
  16. But running for elective office would still generally be banned.
  17. A public accountant by training and nature, he had never worked for an oil company, or in the higher levels of the private sector, or held elective office, when he was appointed head of Pemex in February 1987.
  18. POLITICS _ In 1957, the Liberal Party and Conservative Party formed the "National Front" under which they jointly governed, alternating the presidency every four years and alloting parity in all elective and appointed offices.
  19. Laurel remains as vice president, which is an elective post.
  20. "The bottom line now is to close ranks," said Dixon, a former utility company executive and Democratic National Committee member who was making her first bid for elective office.
  21. The "American citizen" class will first be offered next semester as an elective in a high school to be chosen later. Starting in fall 1992 it will become a required course.
  22. "Today" co-anchor Joe Garagiola will be off the NBC show for four weeks to have elective surgery for a problem that is "not life-theatening," a spokeswoman for the show said Aug. 31.
  23. "We've already been reducing the number of patients in our hospitals from 40 to 60 percent," Seib said, adding officials have transferred some patients and postponed non-emergency surgeries and elective surgeries.
  24. In 1979, 38 percent said abortion was a decisive issue in choosing a candidate for elective office.
  25. But she didn't rule out a future bid for some type of elective job.
  26. Gov. Jim Martin has decided against seeking any elective office once his term ends in 1992, saying he wanted to preclude criticism that he was positioning himself for future campaigns.
  27. Some 54% came from mergers and acquisitions, but one out of six was an elective change by management.
  28. The organization's mission is to register black women voters, develop public policy, seek women to hold elective office and develop them as candidates and involve young people as early as possible in politics, Tucker said.
  29. At the highest levels of the nation's elective government, sweetness and light is the prevailing theme.
  30. It said that Dr. Lapin performed 65% of the hospital's elective surgeries during part of the period reviewed.
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