名詞 plebiscite:

1. a vote by the electorate determining public opinion on a question of national importance

1. It was decided by plebiscite.
   那件事是通過公民投票決定的。
2. The question of which state the minority group should belong to was decided by (a) plebiscite.
   該少數(shù)民族應(yīng)歸屬哪一州的問題已由公民投票表決。
3. A plebiscite was held to decide the fate of the country.
   舉行了公民投票以決定國家的命運(yùn)。

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n.（名詞）
A direct vote in which the entire electorate is invited to accept or refuse a proposal:
公民投票：邀請全體選舉人來接受或拒絕一項(xiàng)提議的直接投票：
例句：
.a new constitution, which his people dutifully ratified in a plebiscite.(New York Times)
.由他的人民在公民投票中盡職地批準(zhǔn)通過的新憲法.(紐約時報)

A vote in which a population exercises the right of national self-determination.
公民表決：人們行使其國家自決權(quán)的表決

來源：
French plébiscite
法語 plébiscite
from Latin plôbiscotum
源自 拉丁語 plôbiscotum
plôbis [genitive of] plôbs [the people] * see pel…-
plôbis [] plôbs的所有格 [人民] *參見 pel…-
scotum [decree] [from neuter past participle of] scoscere [to vote for] [inchoative of] score [to know] * see skei-
scotum [法令] [] 源自scoscere的中性過去分詞 [選舉] [] score的起始動詞 [知道] *參見 skei-

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