| 单词 | electoral college |
| 释义 | electoral collegeWord family nounelectabilityelectionelectioneererelectioneeringelectivityelectorelectorateelectorshipelectoral collegeadjectiveelectableelectedelectiveelectoralverbelectioneerelectadverbelectivelyelectorally eˌlectoral ˈcollege noun the Electoral College a group of people chosen by the votes of the people in each US state, who come together to elect the president, or a similar group in other countries 〔由美国各州人民选出的代表组成的〕总统选举团；〔其他国家的〕领袖选举团 Examples from the Corpus the Electoral College• As the rule book insists, 12 weeks will elapse before the electoral college is convened.• The outcome, in the electoral college, is likely to be quite close.• Instead, the candidates have to put together a jigsaw puzzle of states, bagging their votes in the electoral college.• The most obvious example is the electoral college, the phantom body that stands between voters and the final outcome.• That would deliver almost half of the trade union votes - 40 percent of the electoral college.• However, as it is for any poll, the Electoral College outlook is a snapshot in time, not a prediction.• If the system had been built on popular votes rather than the electoral college, each would have pursued a different strategy.• Even under the electoral college rules, this achievement ought to make Gore the next president. Examples from the Corpus electoral college• This leaves 143 electoral college votes in 14 swing states undecided.• Outdated voting mechanisms, a decentralised, idiosyncratic procedure, and the archaic electoral college have received comment.• Since the trade union votes count for 40 percent of the local electoral college, Mr Davies was declared the nominee.• As the rule book insists, 12 weeks will elapse before the electoral college is convened.• But in the electoral college, Kennedy won by a comfortable 303 votes to 219 votes for Nixon.• If the system had been built on popular votes rather than the electoral college, each would have pursued a different strategy.• This electoral college system must be scrapped. |
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