vote down

英 [vəʊt daʊn]

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

• 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。
• The man who gave his vote for the longest time, on having his judgment disputed, grew stubborn, and doubled his time. What's the longest she's held down a job?
  那主张最长时间的人因为受了批驳而更加坚持，又把时间放长了一倍。她任职时间最长的是什麽工作？
• 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。
• Voters were understandably confused by the identical Caser names on the ballot, and the split vote sent the real candidate Caser down to defeat in the primary.
  选举人被选票上一模一样卡瑟的名字弄糊涂，因而选票分手，导致真正的候选人在初选时就落选，这是可以理解的。
• 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。
• But opponents of the duties, including Lord Mandelson, the UK business secretary, seized on the vote to argue that the Commission should back down.
  但包括英国商务大臣曼德尔森勋爵（lordmandelson）在内，该关税的反对者抓住延长建议被否决的机会表示，欧盟委员会应该放弃了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；