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 electorate [i'lektәrit]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 选民, 有选举权者, 选区

[法] 选民, 选举团, 选区


  1. The electorate is growing tired of his posturings.
    选民对他的口是心非逐渐生厌.
  2. The electorate put the Tories in with an increased majority in 1983.
    1983年选民选举保守党执政, 其票数超过了上届的多数票.
  3. A successful politician is one who keeps his finger on the pulse of the electorate.
    一位成功的政治家是一个对选民有深刻了解的人。


electorate
[ noun ]
the body of enfranchised citizens; those qualified to vote
<noun.group>


Electorate \E*lect"or*ate\, n. [Cf. F. ['e]lectorat.]
1. The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as
in the old German empire.

2. The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are
entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or
division of them.

The middle-class electorate of Great Britain. --M.
Arnold.

  1. Another major lesson, Mr. Shultz said, is that only officials accountable to Congress or the American electorate should be allowed to carry out the types of operations that Mr. Reagan's national security staff apparently executed independently.
  2. Polls and focus groups alike illustrate the electorate's ambivalence about some of the most fundamental issues facing the country.
  3. For once an electorate has it in its head that an administration is exhausted, devoid of new ideas, at the end of its natural life the view that it is time for a change begins to take deep root.
  4. "In U.S. elections around 50 percent of the electorate votes, but that doesn't mean Americans don't want democracy.
  5. Some will cringe at the manifest intention to bribe the electorate.
  6. During a two-hour televised debate that officially marked the end of campaigning Friday, leaders of the three main groups delivered their final message to the electorate.
  7. At last, it was said, somebody is facing up to the US's long-term economic problems; somebody is treating the electorate like adults.
  8. The result was widely considered a protest by an electorate angered by the city's crime and financial problems, as well as by Mayor Marion Barry's legal difficulties.
  9. If approved, the constitutional article would permit 5.7 million more voters, increasing the electorate to nearly 78 million of the nation's 141 million people.
  10. In describing his intentions, explaining their rationale and acknowledging that the project was a mistake and personal failure, Mr. Reagan has preserved his compact with the electorate.
  11. Meanwhile, the US electorate remains as contradictory as ever.
  12. He has to persuade an essentially conservative electorate that his party's reputation for internal squabbling and utopianism is no longer true. In the eight months since he became leader, he has made considerable progress.
  13. These voters, who make up about a quarter of the electorate, give Mr. Bush a favorable-unfavorable rating of 49% to 30%; for Mr. Dukakis, the margin is 42% to 32%.
  14. The opposition parties, for their part, fear they will have too little time to reassess their performance and make a fresh impact on the electorate. The election will be about personalities more than issues.
  15. Aung Gyi tainted in the eyes of much of the electorate, the National Unity Party, which replaced Gen.
  16. It also allows them to forge associations nationally and internationally. Surely an enlightened electorate and responsive global democracy is worth striving for. But the era of increased interactivity poses two main challenges to government and the media.
  17. He took over the premiership a year ago when Mr Michael Manley retired because of poor health. The electorate is being asked to decide on the style and form of the economy's management, rather than economic direction.
  18. The couple settled in Kalgoorlie, the gold-mining town from which the electorate takes its name, and Mr. Campbell went into the milk-distribution business.
  19. "I shall stay as long as the electorate and my own party wish me to do, not a moment longer, but I hope as long as that," she said Monday, adding she is fit and loves her work.
  20. Mr Major always promises lower taxes, but may not dwell on who increased taxation in the first place. He should seek to allay the anxieties of an electorate that has endured a long recession and lost confidence in the durability of any job.
  21. Some politicians said they feared the electorate was sick of the non-stop coverage. But behind the scenes, another debate was taking place: how to re-write Germany's broadcasting law.
  22. On the other hand, aversion to quotas - a strong strain in the American electorate - is unlikely to send people flocking to the polls to back Republicans as a way of thanking Bush for his veto.
  23. Very little, if anything - and this did not go unnoticed by the electorate, particularly by women and youth,' she said. It was primarily women and the youth vote which propelled the Greens back into the Riksdag this year.
  24. Last Friday it was argued here, as elsewhere, that if Mr Major is to regain the confidence of the electorate in the good faith of his government he must make it his overriding purpose to do so.
  25. It was 10 years after introducing structural adjustment that the Rawlings government faced the electorate.
  26. But the process of constitutional reform is not merely at the top of the agenda; it is now under way. The nature of the politicians and the parties who will carry out the electorate's mandate for change is far less clear.
  27. The Reykjavik daily newspaper Morgunbladid recently published a poll showing the opposition Women's Alliance equal with the Independence Party, with each enjoying the support of about 30 percent of the electorate.
  28. Generation by generation, the electorate turns upon its axis: be patient. The author was a member of Harold Macmillan's cabinet between 1960 and 1963 Your fears were well founded.
  29. His hopes rest on a breakthrough victory in a state with a small Republican electorate such as Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma or Massachusetts, which could then propel him through the big March 17 primaries in Michigan and Illinois.
  30. Opinion polls suggest, however, that the electorate has tired of the government's reformist zeal, making the Social Democrats clear favourites to win in September.
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