poll
四级,六级,考研,托福,GRE,1
英[pəʊl]
|美[pol]
n.民意调查;投票选举;投票数;头部
vt.得到(一定数目的)选票;对…进行调查;修剪;修剪
vi.投票;作民意调查
日语:世論調査
法语:sondage
德语:Umfrage
韩语:투표
俄语:encuesta
牛津词典
noun
- 民意测验;民意调查
the process of questioning people who are representative of a larger group in order to get information about the general opinion
- to carry out/conduct a poll
进行民意测验 - A recent poll suggests some surprising changes in public opinion.
最近的调查反映民意有了出人意表的变化。
- 选举投票;计票
the process of voting at an election; the process of counting the votes
- The final result of the poll will be known tomorrow.
投票结果将于明天公布。 - Thursday is traditionally the day when Britain goes to the polls (= when elections are held) .
英国传统的投票选举日是星期四。 - Polls close (= voting ends) at 9 p.m.
投票于晚上9点结束。
- 投票数
the number of votes given in an election
- Labour is ahead in the poll.
工党的得票数领先。 - They gained 20% of the poll.
他们得到了20%的选票。
verb
- 获得(票数)
to receive a particular number of votes in an election
- They polled 39% of the vote in the last election.
在上届选举中,他们获得了39%的选票。 - The Republicans have polled well (= received many votes) in recent elections.
共和党在最近的选举中得票数都很漂亮。
- 对…进行民意调查
to ask a large number of members of the public what they think about sth
- Over 50% of those polled were against the proposed military action.
民调中有超过50%的人反对拟议的军事行动。
词形变化
名词复数形式:polls 过去式:polled 过去分词:polled 现在分词:polling 第三人称单数:polls
中文词源
poll 头,头部,投票选举,民意调查,剪枝,修剪
来自中古英语polle,头皮,头部,头,来自中古德语pol,头,顶点,顶部,来自Proto-Germanic*pullaz,头,头顶,圆形物体,来自PIE*boul,圆形物体,鼓起,泡沫,来自PIE*beu,吹,膨胀,鼓起,词源同ball,pouch,.引申词义数人头,投票,投票选举,民意调查以及动词词义剪头,剪枝,修剪等。
双语例句
- The poll was widely discredited after allegations of ballot rigging.
选举舞弊的指控出现后,这次投票测验受到了广泛质疑。
- On the eve of the poll, campaigning was bitter.
在投票前夕,竞选活动如火如荼。
- The poll canvassed the views of almost eighty economists.
民意调查征询了将近80位经济学家的意见。
- Ministers believed it was vital to dump the poll tax before the election.
大臣们认为在大选前停止征收人头税至关重要。
- We already have files on people's tax details, mortgages and poll tax
我们已经建立了人们纳税详情、抵押贷款以及人头税的档案。
- A BBC poll gave the Labour Party a 12 per cent lead
英国广播公司的一项民意调查预计工党将领先12个百分点。
- An independent opinion poll published today shows growing discontent with the government.
今天发表的一项独立民意测验表明民众对政府的不满正与日俱增。
- A poll for the Observer showed Labour on 39 per cent with the Tories lagging a point behind
《观察家报》一项民意调查显示,工党支持率为39%,保守党落后其1个百分点。
- A recent Gallup poll revealed that 20 million Americans claimed to have had near-death experiences.
最近的一次盖洛普民意测验披露,2,000万美国人声称他们有过濒死体验。
- Nearly three-quarters of people questioned in an opinion poll agreed with the government's decision.
将近3/4的民意调查受访者赞同政府的决定。
- Polls show that the European treaty has gained support in Denmark
民意测验显示该欧盟条约已在丹麦获得支持。
- We are doing a weekly poll on the president, and clearly his popularity has declined
我们每周就总统进行一次民意调查,很显然他的支持率下降了。
- More than 18,000 people were polled
超过1.8万人接受了民意测验。
- Audiences were going to be polled on which of three pieces of contemporary music they liked best
将对观众进行民意调查,询问他们在3部当代音乐作品中最喜欢哪一部。
- More than 70 per cent of those polled said that they approved of his record as president.
超过70%的被调查者称对他总统任期的政绩表示满意。
- Voters are due to go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president
选民应于星期日前往投票站选举新总统。
- The polls have closed in the Pakistan parliamentary elections.
巴基斯坦议会选举投票已结束。
- It was a disappointing result for the Greens who polled three percent
这个结果让绿党感到失望,他们只获得了3%的选票。
- The result showed he had polled enough votes to force a second ballot.
结果显示,他已获得了足够把对手拖入二次投票的票数。
- Trade unions are regarding the poll as a test of the public's confidence in the government.
工会将此次民意调查当作测试民众对政府信心的一种方式。
- The crowd chanted 'No Poll Tax', a reference to the government's new local taxation system
人群高呼“不要人头税”,指的是政府新确立的地方税收制度。
- The council tax replaces the poll tax next April.
市政税在明年4月将取代人头税。
- In a poll of those leaving the theatre and nine out of ten thought it was simply marvellous.
一项对那些刚在剧院看完这场戏的观众所作的调查显示,十有八九的人都认为它简直棒极了。
- A straw poll conducted at the end of the meeting found most people agreed with Mr Forth
会议结束时所做的非正式民意测验表明大多数人赞同福思先生。
- The government will take comfort from the latest opinion poll.
政府会从最新的民意调查中得到安慰。
- He came third in the poll with 149 votes
他在选举中获得149票,名列第三。
- The newspaper took a poll of 300 people to see what the man in the street thinks.
那家报纸对三百人进行了民意测验,看普通老百姓有些什么想法。
语源
Middle English (in the sense head): perhaps of Low German origin. The original sense was head, and hence an individual person among a number, from which developed the sense number of people ascertained by counting of heads and then counting of heads or of votes (17th cent.)