referendum
referendum 英 [ˌrefəˈrendəm] 美 [ˌrɛfəˈrɛndəm]
n. 公民投票权；外交官请示书
名词复数:referendums
- A referendum is an official vote on a specific issue. It's often part of a larger election.
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- n. 公民投票权；外交官请示书
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1. Voters in each region will decide by referendum whether to approve a one-cent increase in the sales-tax to pay for those regional projects.
每一个地区的选民将通过全民公决决定是否批准在营业税上增加一美分以支付那些地区的项目费用。
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2. A referendum will be held in January 2011 in Southern Sudan, part of the North–South peace deal, to decide whether it fully separates from the North.
作为这个北方-南方和平协议的一部分，2011年1月将举行一场全民公决从而决定它是否从北方全面分离出来。
- referendum (n.) 1847, "a submitting of a question to the voters as a whole" (originally chiefly in reference to Switzerland), from French or German, from Latin referendum "that which must be referred," literally "thing brought back," neuter gerundive of referre "to bring or take back" (see refer). Fowler prefers a plural referendums because referenda is "too suggestive (cf. memoranda, agenda &c.) of the correct sense--questions to be referred."
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