ballot是什么意思

n. 投票；投票用纸；投票总数

vi. 投票；抽签决定

vt. 使投票表决；拉选票

n. (Ballot)人名；(英)巴洛特；(法)巴洛

中文词源

ballot 投票

ball, 球。-ot, 小词后缀。来自古时以黑，白球投票的习俗，见blackball, 反对票。

ballot: ballot: see ball
ballot (n.): 1540s, "small ball used in voting," also "secret vote taken by ballots," from Italian pallotte, diminutive of palla "ball," for small balls used as counters in secret voting (see balloon). Earliest references are to Venice. By 1776 extended to tickets or sheets of paper used in secret voting. Ballot box attested from 1670s; metonymically from 1834 as "system or practice of voting by ballot."
ballot (v.): 1540s, from ballot (n.). Related: Balloted; balloting.

1. ball + -ot (由意大利语缩略而来的指小后缀，可以说与法语的指小后缀 -et / -ette 同源)。2. 该词源于意大利语，由此该词的本意为“小球”。

1. The ballot was re-run on Mr Todd's insistence after accusations of malpractice.: 因被控舞弊，在托德先生的坚持下重新进行了投票。

3. Martinez expressed confidence of victory at the ballot box.: 马丁内斯表示了对选举获胜的信心。

4. The poll was widely discredited after allegations of ballot rigging.: 选举舞弊的指控出现后，这次投票测验受到了广泛质疑。

5. They had already voted for him at the first ballot.: 在第一次投票选举时，他们已经投票给他了。