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n.还要斟酌尚须考虑原型referendum的复数
名词 referendum:
a legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the electorate
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The question was decided byreferendum.这问题是由全民投票决定的。 In the past they have often backed the Parti Québécois, which twice held referendums on independence and came within a few thousand votes of winning one of them in1995.
原来，这些选民一般都支持魁人党，该党就独立问题举行了两次全民公投，在1995年那次公投上，该党只差几千票就能获胜。 ecocn
Matching results in the other three referendums suggested that they had turned into a big vote of no confidence in the prime minister.
其他三次公投结果也与此类似，表明公投成为了一场对总理极大不信任的表决。 ecocn
The devolution project would be further enhanced, the government believes, when12 cities hold referendums next year on whether to elect mayors.
政府认为，当12个城市明年举办是否选举市长的公投时，权力下放项目应该进一步加强。 yeeyan
To this was added, during the Progressive era of the early20th century, direct democracy—with referendums, recalls and voter initiatives.
在20世纪初的进步时代，加州宪法中进一步加入了如全民投票、罢免制度、立法提案权等一些直接民主制的要素。 ecocn
Around a dozen national referendums have now been held on such EU issues as new treaties and whether to join the euro.
约一打的国家正对欧盟新条约和是否加入欧元区进行公投表决，其中六个以失败告终。 ecocn
But only24 states are considered to have statewide direct democracy, defined as a process in which citizens themselves place initiatives or referendums on ballots.
但仅仅24州可以被确认为属于全州性的直接民主，也就是公民们可以自己提交立法和复决投票。 ecocn
But11 EU governments grandly promised such referendums on the constitution, and ten of them have been dishonest in pretending that Lisbon is a wholly different document.
欧盟成员国中有11国的宪法中明文规定这样的公投的合法性，但却有是个国家假装里斯本条约不符合公投对象的要求。 ecocn
Countries hold almost twice as many referendums as they did50 years ago, says David Altman, a political scientist at the Catholic University of Chile.
智利天主教大学的一位政治学家大卫•奥特曼指出，有些国家公民投票的数量比50年前提高了将近两倍。 ecocn
Europe and referendums have become ineluctably linked in the Tory imagination.
在保守党的想像中，欧盟和公投已必然地联系在一起。 ecocn
He pointed out that they would require referendums in at least four countries.
他指出，他将在至少四个国家要求公民投票。 yeeyan
In two referendums, they supported the bridge plan.
在两次公民投票中，人们都支持建桥计划。 yeeyan
Indeed, in some cases referendums are good things: they are a way of holding a legislature to account.
的确，在某些情况下，公投是个好东西：这是一种对立法的一种负责的方式。 ecocn
It is an identity that revolves around neutrality, and, yes, an awkward tradition of citizens' referendums.
这是一个徘徊在中立周围的身份，也是一个对公民公投尴尬的传统。 ecocn
Italy’s government was trounced in four referendums, on nuclear power, legal immunity for government ministers and two on water privatisation.
意大利政府在关于核能源、政府部长合法豁免权以及两次水资源私有化问题的四次公投中遭受惨败。 ecocn
Markets are unlikely to wait for the EU to call a constitutional convention, debate schemes for integration and negotiate a text, only to see it buffeted in parliamentary votes and referendums.
市场不可能等待欧盟召集一个制宪会议，讨论一体化的计策，并形成谈判的文本，只能看到欧盟在议会投票和公投中遭受打击。 ecocn
More than half the voters had ignored his advice to abstain in referendums that negated some key parts of his government’s legislative programme.
超过一半的选民对其建议在公投中投弃权票置之不理。该公投否定了他的政府立法程序中的某些关键内容。 ecocn
Mr Berlusconi opted not to fight on the issues, but instead to appeal to the courts to stop the referendums happening.
贝卢斯科尼选择不在这些问题上争辩，转而向法庭献殷勤，企图阻止公投发生。 ecocn
Mr Berlusconi said he would boycott the referendums.
贝卢斯科尼表示他要抵制公投。 ecocn
Mr Bogdanor favours proportional representation buttressed by lots of direct democracy, from party primaries to frequent referendums and Citizens’ Assemblies.
波格丹诺赞成由众多直接民主制支撑起的比例代表制，从党内初选到频繁公投和公民大会。 ecocn
Mr Cameron has broken the link between Europe and referendums, but he cannot kill the issue altogether.
卡梅伦切断了欧洲和公投的联系，但他不可能将二者一起消灭。 ecocn
Now the risk of a two- speed EU, with Sweden and Denmark in the outer lane, has led to speculation about fresh referendums in both countries.
至此由于瑞典和丹麦尚在欧元区外，双速欧洲的风险来推断，两国会举行新一轮的投票表决。 ecocn
Since1990 Germans have made more than 200 bids to hold state-level referendums, compared with fewer than30 in the three previous decades.
1990年以来德国人曾经200次以民众的力量控制了州级的全民投票，而那之前的三十年间这一数字只有30次。 ecocn
Since2005 there have been elections for the presidency, too, replacing the previous embarrassingly unanimous referendums.
自2005年开始，也有了总统选举，来代替以前让人难堪的意见一致的公民投票。 ecocn
Switzerland regularly conducts referendums in which voters are supposed to chose between two options. Britain does not.
同为欧洲国家的瑞士会定期地进行一个选民参与的双选题的投票活动，而英国不会。 ecocn
The constitution’s grandeur alarmed voters sufficiently that in2005 it was killed off by referendums in France and the Netherlands.
欧盟宪法的庞大使投票者极为不安，因而2005年法国和荷兰的全民公投否决了该宪法。 ecocn
This year nearly a score of presidential or parliamentary elections or referendums have been scheduled among the53 members of the AU; some have already been held, with mixed results.
今年计划进行一项针对非盟的53名成员国总统选举、议会选举或公民投票的评分；有些非洲国家已经进行了测评，结果喜忧参半。 ecocn
To be fair, one striking difference between the first and second Irish referendums was the level of knowledge displayed by Irish voters about the treaty.
公平地说，第一次和第二次爱尔兰全民公投间的明显区别，就是爱尔兰投票者对里斯本协议表现出的了解程度不同。 ecocn
Unlike in places like California and Switzerland, referendums are extremely rare in Greece, with the last such vote held in 1974 when the country voted to abolish the monarchy.
和美国加州、瑞士等地不同，全民公投在希腊极其罕见，上一次公投要追溯到遥远的1974年，当时是为了废除君主制。 fortunechina
Referendums would have been lost in many other countries had their people been given a say.
公投在一些人民有发言权的国家可能是不能取得理想的结果。 ecocn |