| 单词 | elect |
| 释义 | Word family noun election re-election elector electorate electioneering adjective elected ≠ unelected electoral elect verb elect re-elect adverb electorally Related topics: Votinge·lect1 /ɪˈlekt/ ●●○ S3 W3 verb [transitive] 1 PPVto choose someone for an official position by voting 选举，推选 the country’s first democratically elected government 该国第一个民主选举产生的政府 a new method for electing the leader of the party 选举党领导的新方式be elected to something He was elected to a US state governorship. 他当选美国州长。be elected (as) president/leader/mayor etc In 1768, John Wilkes was elected as their Member of Parliament. 1768年，约翰·威尔克斯当选为他们地区的议员。n Grammar Elect is often passive in this meaning.► see thesaurus at vote2 elect to do something formalCHOOSE to choose to do something 选择做某事 You can elect to delete the message or save it. 你可以选择删除或者保存信息。→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuselect• The founder-members numbered eleven, and in the first ten years of its existence a further forty-three members were elected.• Britain must now throw this opportunity away by electing a Labour government.• Under any such setup, voters elect a leader who espouses a program.• I think we should start by electing a new chairman.• One is the Legislature, whose members are elected by the people to enact laws.• Ken Livingstone was elected mayor of London in May 2000.• Dudayev declared Chechnya independent in 1991, shortly after he was elected president.• In return for getting Democrats elected, Sweeney will be expecting favors.• Prior to 1981, most companies elected to use an accelerated method of depreciation for tax purposes.democratically elected• The press was horrified and questioned whether Britain was still governable under a democratically elected administration.• The politician may have been democratically elected but the politician does not have the same experience as the career official.• S.-backed coup which overthrew a democratically elected government.• They saw their democratically elected president overthrown by a military coup.elect2 adjective president-elect/governor-elect/prime minister-elect etc PGOthe person who has been elected as president etc, but who has not yet officially started their job 候任[当选而尚未就任的]总统/州长/首相等From Longman Business Dictionaryelecte‧lect1 /ɪˈlekt/ verb [transitive] to choose someone for an official position by votingthe country’s first democratically elected presidentelect somebody toJohn Brown was elected to the board last year.elect somebody (as) president/chairman etcSteven J. Shapiro was elected vice president, corporate planning. —elected adjectivean elected member of the board→ See Verb tableelectelect2 adjective chairman/president elect a person who has been elected to a particular job but has not yet started doing itthe Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce’s chairman electOrigin elect1 (1400-1500) Latin electus, past participle of eligere “to choose”e·lect1 verb →n GRAMMAR1elect2 adjectiveLDOCE OnlineChineseSyllable someone choose to Corpus Business by official an position voting for |
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