ballot
ballot 英 [ˈbælət] 美 [ˈbælət]
n. 投票；投票选举 v. 投票；无记名投票
进行时:balloting 过去式:balloted 过去分词:balloted 第三人称单数:ballots 名词复数:ballots
- A ballot is a document that lists the choices during an election. When running for office, a candidate’s first goal is getting on the ballot.
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- n. 投票；投票选举
- v. 投票；无记名投票
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1. The chairperson is chosen by secret ballot.
主席是通过无记名投票选举产生的。
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2. The union cannot call a strike unless it holds a ballot of members.
工会未经会员投票表决不得发动罢工。
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3. What percentage of eligible voters cast their ballots?
合资格选民的投票率是多少？
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4. She won 58.8% of the ballot.
她赢得了投票总数的 58.8%。
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5. The workers balloted for a strike.
工人对是否罢工进行无记名投票表决。
- ballot (n.) 1540s, "small ball used in voting," also "secret vote taken by ballots," from Italian pallotte, diminutive of palla "ball," for small balls used as counters in secret voting, from a Germanic source, from PIE root *bhel- (2) "to blow, swell." Earliest references are to Venice. By 1776 extended to tickets or sheets of paper used in secret voting. Ballot box attested from 1670s; metonymically from 1834 as "system or practice of voting by ballot."
- ballot (v.) 1540s, "to vote by secret method" (such as ballot balls), from ballot (n.). Related: Balloted; balloting.
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