Landslide的意思|Landslide的解释-里氏词典

landslide ['lændslaid]

n. 山崩

[化] 滑坡

landslide

[ noun ]

an overwhelming electoral victory

<noun.event>

Roosevelt defeated Hoover in a landslide

a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff

<noun.event>

Landslide \Land"slide`\, Landslip \Land"slip`\, n.
1. The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill,
etc.

2. The land which slips down.

3. An election victory in which the winning candidate
receives a substantial majority of the votes, usually
meaning at least ten per cent more than any opposing
candidate.
[PJC]

4. Any overwhelming victory.
[PJC]

Bradley won in a landslide.
Foley filed, and, no small thanks to Lyndon Johnson's landslide, wrested away the 5th District seat which had been held by Republicans for 22 years.
Nawaz Sharif, whose backers shared in a landslide victory in the Oct. 24 parliamentary elections, was assured the prime minister's post after receiving the nomination from 18 parties comprising the Islamic Democratic Alliance.
The Monday quake and resulting landslide in the Soviet Central Asian republic 1,300 miles east of Armenia killed 1,000 people, according to preliminary official estimates.
That led to a landslide victory in March 1989 in direct popular elections to the Soviet Congress of People's Deputies, the national parliament.
The only ones seeming to enjoy it were Republicans, who nominated oilman-rancher Clayton Williams last month in a landslide.
Ontario Premier David Peterson, whose Liberal Party won a landslide victory last month, said the trade agreement "isn't in the interest of the country."
In the nearby town of La Trinidad, 7-year-old Sammy Pelino died when he was buried by a landslide, he added.
Okuli-Bolo is a "heap of rubble" and the chairman of a local economic cooperative, Hairrulo Yuldashev, said the households of 70 peasant families were "completely demolished and buried by the landslide," Tass said.
Jimmy Carter helped drag him down, first dumping hordes of Cuban refugees on Fort Chaffee, then precipitating the Republican landslide of 1980.
By a landslide, voters defeated amendments that would have eliminated three state offices and put their duties under the governor's control, given the governor greater authority over education and allowed cities and counties to reorganize.
In the days before Dukakis' Wisconsin landslide, ranking Democrats were content to let nature take its course.
Jackson also collected about $120,000 at events in Michigan prior to the March 26 caucuses where he won a landslide victory.
"If everybody in this room goes out and gets 20 votes it's a landslide," Vrdolyak said.
Johnston said his 10 percent victory margin would have been considered a landslide had it not been for Duke's presence in the race.
Now the Hungarian Socialist party is poised for a landslide in the run-off vote this Sunday.
But on Election Days past, he has been a consistent landslide winner.
A Hubbert-Siegelman matchup was a wish come true for Gov. Guy Hunt, who won renomination Tuesday in a Republican primary landslide.
A Quebec native fluent in French despite his Irish heritage, Mulroney led his party to a landslide win in September 1984, taking the largest number of seats in Canadian history.
One landslide closed a section of California 17 in Santa Clara County, southeast of San Francisco, state officials reported.
Zappala presented his credentials two days before Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez is to arrive in Washington on his second official visit to the United States since his Socialist Party scored a landslide victory in 1982 elections.
Reagan swept to a 49-state landslide over the ticket, with the Mondale-Ferraro team carrying only Mondale's home state of Minnesota and the District of Columbia.
Street parties went on until dawn and statues were painted in the national colours of green and yellow to celebrate the 441:38 landslide vote forimpeachment.
The governor's endorsements, the organization, the fundraisers, the solemn whispering by aides of Dukakis' inevitability all seemed on the verge of being washed away in a Michigan landslide.
Le Pen claimed this arrangement allowed the right to blunt what otherwise would have been a Socialist landslide.
Yeltsin won more than 5 million votes in a landslide victory last spring to become Moscow's representative in the national parliament.
A landslide Monday blocked a 35-mile stretch of road linking the ravaged town of Rudbar with the Caspian Sea coast, a crucial relief supply route.
In Virginia, Trible, 42, was accused of being a quitter for leaving the Senate last year after one term rather than taking on Democrat Charles S. Robb, a popular former governor who won a landslide.
If President Bush staged a remarkable recovery and won, the market would break out the champagne. Alternatively, if governor Clinton rode the polls to a landslide victory, there would still be cause for a celebration.
Mrs. Chamorro won a landslide victory in presidential elections in February last year as head of a 14-party opposition coalition aligned against the Sandinista government of Daniel Ortega.

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