elect的基本意思是从多个有可能性的个体中选择一个作为采纳或接受的对象。着重选择的仔细和谨慎,含有抛弃未被选中者的意味。elect还可表示作出这种选择的“决定”。
elect是及物动词,作“选举”解时,跟名词、代词作宾语,也可接动词不定式或“(to be/as)+ n. ”充当补足语的复合宾语。elect可用于被动结构。
作“决定”讲时,则接动词不定式或that从句。
elect后表示职务的名词前通常不加冠词。
1. Councils should be answerable to the people who elect them.
市政会成员应对推选他们的人负责。
2. Concentrators in geological sciences elect either geology or geography.
主修地质学的学生要选修地质学或地理课程.
3. Austrian voters went to the polls this weekend to elect a successor to the President.
奥地利选民这周末去投票中心选举下届总统。
4. The right to elect chieftains and to depose them.
选举和撤换酋长的权利.
5. The President-elect followed in an open carriage drawn by six beautiful gray horses.
新当选的总统紧随其后,乘坐一辆由6匹漂亮的灰马拉着的敞篷马车。
6. Unions would elect their leadership by secret postal ballot.
工会将通过秘密邮寄选票的方式选举领导人。