gerrymander
gerrymander 英 ['dʒerɪmændə(r)] 美 [ˈdʒɛriˌmændɚ, ˈɡɛr-]
n. 改变选举区；选区不公正的重新划分 vt. 为政党利益改划选区；为一党私利而重新将划分选区 vi. 不公正地划分选区；弄虚作假
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- Some politicians change the boundaries of their voting districts in order to benefit themselves or their political party. To manipulate the boundaries like this — often viewed as unfair — is to gerrymander.
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- n. 改变选举区；选区不公正的重新划分
- vt. 为政党利益改划选区；为一党私利而重新将划分选区
- vi. 不公正地划分选区；弄虚作假
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1. First, the state’s demographics are changing fast enough that an overly ambitious partisan gerrymander is likely to come unstuck during its ten-year lifespan.
首先，本州的人口分布情况变化很快，如果偏向某个党派的选区划分进行得太过，在未来的十年里可能不能收效。
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2. Comparing how Himba speakers and English speakers distinguish colors on a map is a bit like comparing how Democrats and Republicans might gerrymander the same district: there’s just not much overlap.
比较一下 Himba语系和英语语系对地图上的用色的差别，就如同在比较共和党和民主党划分的选区——基本上没有相同点。
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3. Mark Waldron In California the Democrats control the redistricting - they gerrymander out as many Republicans as they can.
在加州，民主党人控制选区划分——他们杰利蝾螈出尽可能多的共和党人。
- gerrymander (v.) 1812, "arrange political divisions in disregard of natural boundaries so as to give one party an advantage in elections," also from 1812 as a noun, American English, from name of Elbridge Gerry + (sala)mander. Gerry, governor of Massachusetts, was lampooned when his party redistricted the state in a blatant bid to preserve an Antifederalist majority. One sprawling Essex County district resembled a salamander, and a newspaper editor dubbed it the Gerrymander. Related: Gerrymandered; gerrymandering.
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