gerrymander

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英 ['dʒerɪmændə(r)]word uk audio image

美 [ˈdʒɛriˌmændɚ, ˈɡɛr-] word us audio image

  • v.
    为本党利益改划选举区分,不公正操纵,欺骗
  • n.
    改变选举区,欺骗

单词词源

gerrymander 不公正的划分选区

来自19世纪初美国马萨诸萨邦州长Elbridge Gerry,其为了获取更多选票,把选区进行人为的划分,被嘲笑新选区看起来如同一只salamander, 因此据此合成了该词。

双语例句

1. If you are a democrat you want to gerrymander districts and have an electoral college .
如果你是一个民主人士,你想进行不公正选区划分并拥有选举团。
2. Some republican success , it is true , was down to recent shameless efforts to gerrymander the nation 's congressional boundaries .
诚然,一些共和党议员上位归功于近来不公正地重划国会选区的无耻做法。
3. Gerrymander : there are two principal strategies behind gerrymandering : maximizing the effective votes of supporters , and minimizing the effective votes of opponents .
"蜥蜴脚尾"现象的两种主要策略是:最大限度增加本党有效选票的同时,使对手的有效选票达到最小化。
4. If you are a democrat you want to gerrymander districts and have an electoral college . This vastly reduces the number of votes a president needs to win an election .
假如你是个民主党人,你会通过重划选区来争取多赢得一个选民团,这样就会大大减少赢得总统选举所需要的选票数。
5. A republican gerrymander in north carolina ( reversing the democratic one that preceded it ) is proving a challenge for several more socially conservative " blue-dog " democrats .
共和党在北卡罗莱纳州重新划分选区(完全改变之前民主党的划分),对几名在社会问题上更保守的“蓝色狗”民主党人构成挑战。

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