day 122candidates and votes

candidates and votes

Talk about candidates, votes and terms of office, and use 通 as a verb measure (罵了一通, 忙了一通) and 人次 (person-times).

today’s words

• 國民 guómín · citizen, national
• 否決 fǒujué · vote down, veto
• 決議 juéyì · resolution
• 連任 liánrèn · be re-elected (for another term)
• 棄權 qìquán · abstain (from voting)
• 任期 rènqí · term of office
• 提名 tímíng · nominate
• 候選人 hòuxuǎnrén · candidate
• 推選 tuīxuǎn · elect, choose (as representative)
• 席位 xíwèi · seat (in a council)
• 宣誓 xuānshì · swear an oath, be sworn in
• 人次 réncì · person-times (visits counted)
• 接洽 jiēqià · make contact, arrange (business)
• 開路 kāilù · open a path, pave the way
• 力行 lìxíng · practise (actively)
• 邁進 màijìn · stride forward
• 侵蝕 qīnshí · erode, eat away
• 審慎 shěnshèn · cautious, careful
• 特約 tèyuē · specially engaged, contracted
• 效勞 xiàoláo · serve, work for
• 影射 yǐngshè · insinuate, allude to
• 指正 zhǐzhèng · point out (mistakes), correct
• 周詳 zhōuxiáng · thorough, detailed

sentences

• 這個市場一天有三千人次來買菜。 · The market gets three thousand visits a day.
• 王阿姨把那個人罵了一通。 · Auntie Wang gave that man a good telling-off.
• 大家忙了一通，終於把簽名整理好了。 · After a lot of rushing about, we finally got the signatures sorted.
• 許伯伯連任了，任期還有兩年。 · Uncle Xu was re-elected: his term runs for another two years.
• 投票的時候，只有一個人棄權。 · In the vote, only one person abstained.