referendum

美音：[.refə'rendəm] 英音：[.refə'rendəm]

简单释义：

n.全民公决；全民投票

网络公民投票；公投；复决

变形：

复数：referendums

完整释义：

1.(决定政策可否等的)公民表决;投票(权);公民所投的票
2.(大使对本国政府的)请示书

例句：

Rebel MPs from his own Conservative party want to force a national referendum on whether to leave the European Union altogether.
英国保守党本身唱反调的议员们要求就是否要完全脱离欧盟一事，举行全民公决。
Do not think of it as something utopian, something that electorates have to approve in a referendum.
别把它当作不切实际、或是必须经过选民公投通过的事情。
Observers said the results were less convincing than ap-peared at first sight, in a poll transformed into a referendum on Mr Putin.
观察家认为，当投票演变成为对普京的公投时，这样的选举结果并没有表面看起来那么令人信服。
The referendum will allow voters to punish him for his perceived betrayals by voting against the change.
全民公投将允许选民们以投反对票的方式惩罚他的背叛。
In northern minds, destabilising the south and mucking up the referendum would undermine the legitimacy of any putative new country.
在北方人眼里，动摇南方的根基并搅乱民意投票能够削弱任何公认新国家的合法性。
I think your readers will end up feeling deceived by Cameron over the question of a referendum.
在全民公决这个问题上，我认为你的读者最终会感到自己受到了卡梅隆的欺骗。
The former foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind said he believed a vote for a referendum would make Britain a "laughing stock" .
而前外交部马尔列姆·列坎德则认为，为一项全民公决进行议会投票会让英国成为“笑柄”。
A measure referred to voters by a state legislature proposing that specific legislation be approved or rejected is a referendum.
是指通过州立法机关建议具体立法得到批准或否决而进行的选民投票，称为“全民投票”。

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