| 词组 | vote |
| 释义 | verb | noun vote1 /vəʊt $ voʊt/ verb to show which person or party you want, or whether you support a plan, by marking a piece of paper or raising your handphrasesvote yes/no Most people voted yes.vote Democrat/Republican/Conservative etc My father usually votes Republican.vote by a large/small majority The party voted by a large majority to cut taxes.be eligible/entitled to vote (=be legally allowed to vote) All those aged 18 or over are eligible to vote.register to vote (=put your name on the list of voters) We must encourage people to register to vote.adverbsvote unanimously (=everyone votes for the same person or thing) The committee voted unanimously in favour of the proposal.vote overwhelmingly (=by a large majority) Union members voted overwhelmingly to strike.vote narrowly (=by a small majority) The Senate narrowly voted to pass the bill.vote tactically BrE (=vote for a person or party that you do not usually support, in order to stop another person or party from winning) Many people decided to vote tactically, to prevent the socialists from getting in again.prepositionsvote for sth/ in favour of sth A majority of the islanders voted for independence. | The board of directors voted in favour of the plan.vote for sb Are you going to vote for Obama?vote against sth His party voted against the reforms.vote on sth (=about something) MPs will vote on the issue tomorrow.THESAURUS: vote cast your vote formal to vote in an election: People will cast their votes to choose the next leader of the United States. | The first votes have been cast in the country’s general election. go to the polls if the people in a country go the polls, they vote in an election. Go to the polls is used especially in news reports: Tomorrow voters go to the polls to choose a new government. | The country will go to the polls on January 21st. electleader | president | prime minister | governor | government | representative | official | member of parliament | chairman to choose a leader, representative, or government by voting: The people elected him leader by a huge majority. | Obama was elected president of the United States. | He was elected governor of California. | He will lead the country’s first democratically elected government. | He is an elected official and he is not allowed to accept gifts. | I think we should start by electing a new chairman. | The newly elected leader will take office today (=start his or her official job). | She was the first woman to be elected to Congress. re-elect to elect someone again: He was re-elected president with 49% of the vote. ballotmembers | workers | employees to ask the members of an organization to vote on something in order to decide what to do: The union will ballot its members on whether to go ahead with the strike action. | Nearly a thousand workers were balloted on whether to accept or reject the proposal. | All employees were balloted and Roger was the clear winner. vetobill | legislation | law | decision | proposal to vote against something that other people have agreed on, so that it cannot happen: The governor threatened to veto the bill. | The president has the right to veto any piece of legislation (=any law or part of a law). | Governor Symington vetoed a similar law last year. | China can veto any decision made by the other members of the Security Council. | The committee vetoed a proposal to change the party’s constitution. verb | noun vote2 /vəʊt $ voʊt/ noun an occasion when a person or a group of people vote in an electionverbsget/receive votes The party which receives the most votes will be elected to govern the country.win/lose the vote She won the vote and became president. | The Labour Party lost the vote in the general election.have the vote (=have the right to vote in an election) Women in New Zealand have had the vote since 1893.cast a vote (=vote in an election) After all the votes have been cast, they have to be counted.have/take a vote (on sth) (=organize a vote to decide something) They took a quick vote on what to do next.count the votes The votes were counted and the result of the election was announced.require a vote A vote is required before the law can be changed.sb’s vote goes to sb/sth My vote will go to the party that does the most for the environment.sb’s vote increases/rises (=the number of people who have voted for a person or party increases) The Liberal Democrat vote increased by over 2%.sb’s vote falls/decreases (=the number of people who have voted for a person or party decreases) This year their vote fell by more than half.adjectives/nouns + votea majority vote (=when most people vote for someone or something) A change in the law would need a two-thirds majority vote.a unanimous vote (=when everybody votes the same way) The vote in favour of the proposal was unanimous.an electoral vote (=a vote in an election) He needed 270 electoral votes to win.a decisive vote (=a vote that decides the result of an election) The Green Party may have the decisive vote in the next election.the popular vote (=the votes of the people of the country in an election) The Conservative Party won 42.9% of the popular vote.a parliamentary vote (=a vote in parliament) He voted against the government in a parliamentary vote.a postal vote (=when you send in your vote by post) She applied for a postal vote because she is too ill to travel to the polling station. a free vote (=when politicians can vote according to their personal opinions rather than follow a party policy) The law was passed in Parliament by a free vote.the Labour/Conservative etc vote (=the number of people who voted Labour, Conservative etc) The Conservative vote increased in the last election.a proxy vote (=when you arrange for someone else to vote for you) Proxy votes were limited to one per person.prepositionsa vote for sth/in favour of sth He said that a vote for his party would be a vote for change.a vote for sb There were only three votes for the other candidate.a vote against sth Thirty votes were cast against the proposal.by a vote The matter was decided by a vote of committee members.phrasesput sth to the vote (=have a vote in order to decide something) The issue was put to the vote in the House of Commons.sb’s share of the vote The Social Democrats’ share of the vote fell by 5%.a vote of (no) confidence (=an official vote to show that people support or do not support a government, leader etc) The government won a vote of confidence by 339 votes to 207. |
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