vote down

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美 [voʊt daʊn]

投票否决

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 投票否决;投票拒绝
  If peoplevote downa person or their proposal, they reject that person or proposal, usually as a result of a formal vote.
  1. The Congress voted down a motion to change the union's structure...
     国会投票否决了改变工会结构的动议。
  2. If he demands too much, the unions will vote him down.
     如果他要求太多，工会就会投票撤换他。

英英释义

verb

• vote against
  1. The faculty turned thumbs down on the candidate for the Dean position
  Synonym:turn thumbs down
• thwart the passage of
  1. kill a motion
  2. he shot down the student's proposal
  Synonym:killshoot downdefeatvote out

双语例句

• Once the vote was taken, things quieted down quickly
  一旦投完票，事情便很快平息了下来。
• Including general conflict problem," a vote down "problem and" robustness "problem, the conflict problems of multi-source information processing based on D-S theory are analyzed in the paper.
  在多源信息融合处理中，针对基于D-S理论融合产生的冲突问题，进行了全面分析和总结，归纳为三个方面的问题：一般冲突问题、一票否决问题及鲁棒性问题；
• The bill adds dozens of negotiating objectives requested by lawmakers, who still could vote down any deal struck.
  法案增加了议员所要求的数十个谈判目标，他们仍然有权否决已经达成的所有协议。
• Though it seems unlikely that shareholders will actually vote down the proposed capital injection, the bank is facing an uncomfortable shareholders 'meeting at the end of February.
  虽然股东们似乎不大可能投票否决拟议中的资金注入，但该银行在2月底召开的股东大会将不会平静。
• US companies have begun cutting pay and benefits for top executives – and disclosing more details of packages – anticipating the effect of new rules that give shareholders greater power to vote down remuneration structures.
  由于预见到新规的影响，一些美国公司已开始削减高管薪酬和福利，并披露薪酬方案的更多细节。新的规则将赋予股东更大的权力，以投票否决薪酬结构。
• If he demands too much, the unions will vote him down.
  如果他要求太多，工会就会投票撤换他。
• We vote for many reasons a sense of duty, a desire to participate, and so on but nobody votes under the illusion that it's all down to him.
  我们参加投票有许多理由，比如出于责任感、参与愿望等等，但没有人会幻想这一切取决于自己。
• Some suspect the timing of the no-confidence vote may be linked to Mr Kan's recent calls to deregulate the energy industry and scale down the importance of nuclear power.
  据悉，自民党在这个时候提出不信任案也许跟菅直人最近想撤销对能源工业的管制以及缩减核能的重要性有关。
• We are left with no choice but to vote it down.
  我们别无选择，只能投票反对这项计划。
• I believe the onus is upon us to vote down the project.
  我认为我有责任否决这项工程。