单词详解

1.n.

A. [C] 选票；票（a formal choice that you make in an election or at a meeting in order to choose sb. or decide sth.）

The vote lacks three of being a majority. 投票结果少三票不能成为多数。

The vote went against her. 投票选举对她不利。

The vote went in my favor. 表决的结果对我有利。

They had to recount the vote. 他们不得不重新计算选票。

B. [C] 选举；投票（an occasion when a group of people vote on sth.）

Let’s take a vote. 我们来表决一下吧。

C. [U] 投票权；选举权（the right to vote, especially in political elections）

In China people get the vote at 18. 在中国，国民18周岁开始有选举权。

2. v.

A. 选举，投票（to show formally by making a paper or raising your hand which person you want to win an election, or which plan or idea you support）

I’ll vote for you. 我会投你的票。

Citizens vote for president in November. 公民在十一月投票选总统。

Who did you vote for? 你把票投给了谁？

You’d better vote Democrat. 你最好去投民主党的票。

Did you vote for the candidate? 你投了那个候选人的票吗？

At the end of the meeting, a vote was taken on the motion. 会议结束前对该项提议进行了表决。

B. 投票同意（to agree to give sb. / yourself sth. by voting）

I move that we vote these proposals point by point. 我提议逐条表决这些建议。

I vote we eat out tonight. 我提议我们今晚出去吃饭。

相关词组

1. vote against  投票反对某人

I, for one, shall vote against the proposal. 我也投票反对这个提议。

2. vote down 否决 

I believe the onus is upon us to vote down the project. 我认为我有责任否决这项工程。

3. vote for 投票选举某人

Only a minority of the class vote for the plan. 班里只有少数学生投票赞成这项计划。

相关单词

复数：votes

第三人称单数：votes

过去分词：voted

过去式：voted

现在分词：voting