Referendum
[ ,rɛfə'rɛndəm ]
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n. 公民投票;外交官请示书;全民公决;请示书;
💡 词根助记
re再次+fer带来，拿来+endum表名词→提出候选人→公民投票选举
📝 例句
Ireland decided to hold a referendum on divorce.
爱尔兰决定就离婚问题进行全民投票。
✅ 同义词
📖 牛津释义
referendum
n
(pl ~s) [C, U]
referring of a political issue to a general vote by all the people of a country for a decision; vote thus taken 全民投票（以表决某政治问题）; 全民投的票
hold a referendum on ending conscription 就结束徵兵问题举行全民投票
settle a national issue by referendum 以全民投票来解决一项国家大事. Cf 参看 plebiscite.
🔁 扩展释义
*[,refә'rendәm]n. 公民复决, 请示书【法】 公民投票, 公民投票权, 复决
📖 同为「GMAT」词汇
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The newspapers don't come out till about ten o'clock.
报纸要差不多十点钟才出来。
I wasn't born yesterday.
我又不是三岁小孩。
After switching on powerful arc lights, they saw great stalagmites -- some of them over forty feet high -- rising up like tree-trunks to meet the stalactites suspended from the roof.
他们打开强力弧光灯，看见一株株巨大的石笋，有的高达40英尺，像树干似地向上长着，与洞顶悬挂下来的钟乳石相接。