• n. 投票；投票用紙；投票總數(shù)
• vi. 投票；抽簽決定
• vt. 使投票表決；拉選票
• n. (Ballot)人名；(英)巴洛特；(法)巴洛

ball, 球。-ot, 小詞后綴。來(lái)自古時(shí)以黑，白球投票的習(xí)俗，見(jiàn)blackball, 反對(duì)票。

ballot

ballot: see ball

ballot (n.)

1540s, "small ball used in voting," also "secret vote taken by ballots," from Italian pallotte, diminutive of palla "ball," for small balls used as counters in secret voting (see balloon). Earliest references are to Venice. By 1776 extended to tickets or sheets of paper used in secret voting. Ballot box attested from 1670s; metonymically from 1834 as "system or practice of voting by ballot."

ballot (v.)

1540s, from ballot (n.). Related: Balloted; balloting.

1. The ballot was re-run on Mr Todd's insistence after accusations of malpractice.

因被控舞弊，在托德先生的堅(jiān)持下重新進(jìn)行了投票。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

2. I'm going to write him in on my ballot next year.

明年我要在我的選票上寫(xiě)上他的名字。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

3. Martinez expressed confidence of victory at the ballot box.

馬丁內(nèi)斯表示了對(duì)選舉獲勝的信心。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

4. The poll was widely discredited after allegations of ballot rigging.

選舉舞弊的指控出現(xiàn)后，這次投票測(cè)驗(yàn)受到了廣泛質(zhì)疑。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

5. They had already voted for him at the first ballot.

在第一次投票選舉時(shí)，他們已經(jīng)投票給他了。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句