gerrymander
GRE,1
英['dʒerɪ,mændə]
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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
日语:ゲリマンダー
法语:faire du charcutage électoral
德语:Wahlkreisschiebung
韩语:속임수
俄语:falsificación de elecciones
牛津词典
verb
- 不公正地改划(选区),不公正地划分(选区)(为使某政党获得优势)
to change the size and borders of an area for voting in order to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election
网络解释
n. 改变选举区;选区不公正的重新划分
vt. 为政党利益改划选区;为一党私利而重新将划分选区
vi. 不公正地划分选区;弄虚作假
词形变化
现在分词:gerrymandering 过去分词:gerrymandered 过去式:gerrymandered 第三人称单数:gerrymanders
双语例句
- A gerrymander sounds like a strange political beast, which in fact it is, considered from a historical perspective.
一个不公正划分选区听起来象是一个奇怪的政治怪兽,事实上它是来自历史上的观点。
- The reason why so many investors are obsessed with the government is that officials cannot stop themselves from intervening in the market to try and gerrymander the level of the stock index.
如此多投资者执迷于政府的原因是,政府官员忍不住就会干预股市,试图操纵股指点位。
语源
early 19th cent.: from the name of Governor Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts + salamander, from the supposed similarity between a salamander and the shape of a new voting district on a map drawn when he was in office (1812), the creation of which was felt to favour his party; the map (with claws, wings, and fangs added),was published in the Boston Weekly Messenger, with the title The Gerry-Mander