| 词汇 | balloting |
| 释义 | balloting present participle ofballot ballot verb[ T ] uk /ˈbæl.ət/ us /ˈbæl.ət/ to organize a secret vote by a group of people in order to find out their views: 进行无记名投票 The union decided to ballot its members on the issue.工会决定让会员就这件事进行无记名投票。 Elections absentee absentee ballot absentee vote absentee voter absentee voting enfranchisement entrance poll exit poll first-past-the-post flip proportional representation proxy proxy vote proxy voter proxy voting vote something through voting voting booth voting machine voting slip Examples of ballotingballoting In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Thus, the election really took place before the actual balloting. Individual jurors were selected by the county sheriff, but there was no provision for balloting, nor any suggestion in law that this should be so. This was compounded by the laborious method of balloting which, notwithstanding minor modifications over time, took several days rather than hours. Finally, demilitarisation became an important issue in the 1963 electoral campaign, and contributed to the preemptive military coup a few days before the scheduled balloting. The campaign was more important than the balloting for obtaining and legitimising political power. Whether one viewed this as the proper outcome may depend in part on how one views the outcome of the balloting. Finally, even for party leaders in major urban areas, existing balloting arrangements created serious problems of party management. In fact, he did not even get 50 % of the votes cast needed to qualify him for a second round of balloting. Activities among the poor are largely limited to the provision of social services, often charity, and mobilization during elections in which free balloting takes place. The governor suggested that these initiatives, particularly those establishing a universal franchise and a single electoral college for local balloting, be restored by administrative degrees issued by himself. In both states, therefore, the parties were still involved in the balloting process although their role was much restricted by comparison with the older, unofficial balloting system. It requires a situation where the most hotly contested issues, such as absentee balloting and local election observers, are addressed beforehand. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We also have reservations about the system of balloting for industrial action. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, by common consent, current law on industrial action and, in particular, on balloting is extremely complex. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Thirdly, there is the cost and the related fact that insistence on postal ballots would force change on unions which already have adequate balloting systems. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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