electing

英 [ɪˈlektɪŋ]

美 [ɪˈlektɪŋ]

v.  选举; 推选; 选择，决定(做某事)
elect的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 选举;推选
  When peopleelectsomeone, they choose that person to represent them, by voting for them.
  1. The people of the Philippines have voted to elect a new president...
     菲律宾人民已投票选举出了一位新总统。
  2. Manchester College elected him Principal in 1956...
     曼彻斯特学院于1956年推选他做院长。
  3. The country is about to take a radical departure by electing a woman as its new president.
     该国将发生重大转变，选举一位女性担任新总统。
• VERB 选择，决定(做)
  If youelect todo something, you choose to do it.
  1. Those electing to smoke will be seated at the rear.
     那些想吸烟的人将坐在后排。
• ADJ 已当选但未就任的;候任的
  Electis added after words such as 'president' or 'governor' to indicate that a person has been elected to the post but has not officially started to carry out the duties involved.
  1. ...the date when the president-elect takes office.
     候任总统就职日

双语例句

• When electing Presidents of the United States, Americans haven't been partial to one type of man.
  美国人在选举总统的时候，并不偏好某一类人。
• Those electing to smoke will be seated at the rear.
  那些想吸烟的人将坐在后排。
• In the face of our present national crisis, merely electing a Republican president and Congress is not ambitious enough.
  面对当前的美国国家危机，对共和党人来说，仅仅在总统和国会选举中获胜还不够志向远大。
• The country had confounded the pundits by electing a fourth-term Tory government
  该国国民连续四次选举托利党来执掌政府，这令专家们困惑不已。
• The framework for electing the chief executive and the legislature that I have described has been firmly fixed in the basic law.
  我刚才所说的推选行政长官和立法机关的架构，《基本法》中已有明确规定。
• In both cases, they're more likely to place value inthe symbolic power of electing a woman President.
  这两种情况下，他们就更可能把价值寄托在具有象征意义的选举权上-因此她们愿意选举一位女性总统。
• The act of an option holder in electing not to exercise or offset an option.
  指期权的持有者选择放弃执行或对冲期权合约的行为。
• In electing Barack Hussein Obama to the presidency, the American people have chosen an intellectual, a prophet of unity and a man with a black Kenyan father and a white American mother.
  选举巴拉克胡赛因奥巴马（barackhusseinobama）担任总统，美国民众选择的是一位知识分子，一位团结的提倡者，以及一位肯尼亚黑人父亲与美国白人母亲的儿子。
• Despite the gain in efficiency that electing a DR provides, there is a disadvantage.
  尽管选举DR提供了在效率上的改进，也有一个缺点。
• I don't remember electing George W Bush to a third term.
  我们当初怎么了，为何不选布什连任第三届总统。