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 election [ɪ'lɛkʃən]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 选举, 当选, 选择权

[法] 选举, 当选


  1. I may vote for her at the next election.
    下届选举我可能选她。
  2. It's impossible to tell who will win the next election.
    下届选举谁能获胜无法预知。
  3. Have you read the news about the election?
    你看了关于选举的新闻了吗？


election
[ noun ]
  1. a vote to select the winner of a position or political office

    2. <noun.act>
    the results of the election will be announced tonight
  2. the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice

    3. <noun.act>
    her election of medicine as a profession
  3. the status or fact of being elected

    4. <noun.state>
    they celebrated his election
  4. the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)

    5. <noun.cognition>


Election \E*lec"tion\, n. [F. ['e]lection, L. electio, fr.
eligere to choose out. See {Elect}, a.]
1. The act of choosing; choice; selection.

2. The act of choosing a person to fill an office, or to
membership in a society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or
viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor.

Corruption in elections is the great enemy of
freedom. --J. Adams.

3. Power of choosing; free will; liberty to choose or act.
``By his own election led to ill.'' --Daniel.

4. Discriminating choice; discernment. [Obs.]

To use men with much difference and election is
good. --Bacon.

5. (Theol.) Divine choice; predestination of individuals as
objects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the ``five
points'' of Calvinism.

There is a remnant according to the election of
grace. --Rom. xi. 5.

6. (Law) The choice, made by a party, of two alternatives, by
taking one of which, the chooser is excluded from the
other.

7. Those who are elected. [Obs.]

The election hath obtained it. --Rom. xi. 7.

{To contest an election}. See under {Contest}.

{To make one's election}, to choose.

He has made his election to walk, in the main, in
the old paths. --Fitzed.
Hall.

  1. For nervous Conservative backbenchers with an eye on the next election, that might be no bad thing.
  2. He has fought this election as if he, rather than Mr Major, had inherited the party leadership after the toppling of Mrs Thatcher.
  3. The ban interferes with the gathering and reporting of truthful and significant information about the political process on election day, the network argued in federal court papers.
  4. Former Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega paid his first visit to the United States since his election defeat last February and admitted he made many mistakes while in power.
  5. He proposed to have the Communist Party officials at every level stand for election.
  6. Before his election as attorney general in 1982, Van de Kamp served seven years as Los Angeles County district attorney, five years as federal public defender and two years as assistant federal public defender in Los Angeles.
  7. With time running out for legislative action in the election season, the bill's chances of becoming law are cloudy.
  8. Like the House, the Senate committee declined to kill any programs, relying instead on across-the-board spending restraint to reach deficit-reduction targets without making those tough choices in an election year.
  9. Dealers attributed the higher stock market start to dollar selling on a news report that Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party might lose an election for the powerful lower house of Parliament early next year.
  10. As for state officials, Featherman said, "I'm not sure the state wants the problem of managing Philadelphia's debt." Madonna said getting more state aid won't be easy, especially in an election year.
  11. Some analysts predict a minority government in the next election, with the New Democrats holding the balance of power.
  12. The attack came the same day Colombians voted in a national election to choose 70 members of an assembly to rewrite the country's 104-year-old constitution.
  13. Equities saw strong gains as final results came in from the country's general election.
  14. He set the Feb. 9 election date after weeks of speculation that he wanted to extend the term he first won in 1983.
  15. He tried again in 1978 and lost to Hammond by 98 votes. Hickel then ran a write-in campaign as an independent in the general election and lost.
  16. The incumbent Social Democrats, or SPD, won 45%, a strong recovery from the 41.7% they won in the November election that resulted in a deadlock with the opposition Christian Democrats.
  17. "If politicians really believe in parliamentary democracy, then they should participate in this election.
  18. Eyeing the general election, he hopes to reinforce the "traditional values" advantage that GOP candidates have enjoyed over Democrats for a generation.
  19. Uno resigned to take responsibility for the July election loss, leaving the Liberal Democrats in their worst crisis since the party was formed in 1955 and began enjoying uninterrupted rule.
  20. Mr. Mulroney told reporters Saturday that he remains confident that the Conservatives will win the election.
  21. State-of-emergency regulations restrict reporting about unrest, security force action, treatment of detainees, some forms of protest and various statements the government considers subversive. The regulations prohibit calls for election boycotts.
  22. If opinion polls are correct, Quebeckers will sweep the separatists back into power in a provincial election, ending nine years of rule by the Liberal party, which wants Quebec to remain part of Canada.
  23. His death June 3, and the July 28 election of Rafsanjani, raised hopes that Iran's leadership would move the country away to some extent from clerical domination.
  24. The question asked the 1,039 Canadians surveyed was: "Just suppose for a minute that Canadians were allowed to vote in a U.S. presidential election.
  25. Sunday's was the sixth election since the return to democracy after the 1967-74 military dictatorship.
  26. But Allan MacEachen, Liberal leader in the Senate, said the Liberal senators decided that, for an issue of this importance, it was appropriate to await the response of Canadians in a national election.
  27. But there is concern in the PT that the election will be over in the first round.
  28. I have kept the faith." Caperton will appoint a temporary successor to Manchin, and voters in the 1990 general election will select someone to fill the remaining two years of Manchin's term, Secretary of State Ken Hechler said.
  29. Ms. Arey and Payne both had their party's nominations to compete for the seat again in November, but it was considered likely that the loser in Tuesday's election would withdraw from the race.
  30. A general election is due by October 1993, and the campaign has already begun.
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