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

• Despite all the talk of a sweeping big 'no' to austerity, we found that only a fifth of the public was fundamentally opposed to it and would vote down any proposal that we put forth to a vote.
  尽管很多人都在谈，对紧缩政策彻底地回答一个大大的不，但我们发现，只有五分之一的公众对它持根本性的反对态度，对我们提出的任何方案都会投票反对。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• If an answer is obviously wrong ( or inferior in some way), you vote it down.
  但如果答案明显是错的（或者比较差），也可以给它减一票。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。