plebiscite
英 ['pleb?sa?t; -s?t]
美['pl?b?s?t]
- n. 公民投票；平民表決
實用場景例句
- to hold a plebiscite on the country's future system of government
- 就國家未來的政府體制舉行公民投票
牛津詞典
- A plebiscite was held to decide the fate of the country.
- 舉行了公民投票以決定國家的命運.
辭典例句
- A plebiscite was taken as to whether this was a fitting punishment.
- 如此懲辦是否妥當,還特地舉行了一次公民投票.
名作英譯部分
- It was decided by plebiscite.
- 那件事是通過公民投票決定的.
期刊摘選
- The question of which state the minority group should belong to was decided by plebiscite.
- 該少數(shù)民族應(yīng)歸屬哪一州的問題已由公民投票表決.
期刊摘選
- The province decide by plebiscite to lower the voting age to eighteen.
- 該省用平民表決的方法將選舉年齡降至18歲.
期刊摘選
- Mr Ch á vez, though not a candidate, has turned it plebiscite on himself.
- 雖然查韋斯先生不是候選人, 但是他把這次選舉當作是對他的公民投票.
期刊摘選
- The decision to concede a plebiscite on the voting system has enraged them.
- 卡梅倫同意就選舉制度改革舉行全民公投的決定,令這些人極為不滿.
期刊摘選
- It was Iceland's first plebiscite since the island's independence from Denmark in 1944.
- 這是該國在1944年脫離丹麥獨立后舉行的首次全民公投.
期刊摘選
- to hold a plebiscite on the country's future system of government
- 就國家未來的政府體制舉行公民投票
《牛津高階英漢雙解詞典》