时间:2019-01-19 作者:英语课 分类:英语单词荟萃


英语课

今天学的词组是landslide 1。 Landslide的意思是山崩,塌方。比如hundreds of houses were destroyed in a landslide -- 山崩摧毁了数以百计的房屋。 自然界的landslide意味着灾难和恐惧。 不过选举中的landslide,也就是压倒的优胜, 对竞选者来说就是求之不得的了。


巴西总统席瓦尔在2006年决选中获得61%的选票。新闻报道说, "Brazil's president won in landslide," 意思是巴西总统以压倒性的多数当选。 美国历史上的landslide victory -- 多票当选的例子也不少。远的不说, 1988年老布什以426张选举人票当选总统。他的民主党对手只得到111张选举人票。对Bush来说,竞选结果绝对是压倒的优

 



n.(竞选中)压倒多数的选票;一面倒的胜利
  • Our candidate is predicated to win by a landslide.我们的候选人被预言将以绝对优势取胜。
  • An electoral landslide put the Labour Party into power in 1945.1945年工党以压倒多数的胜利当选执政。
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air bubble pitting
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bearing outer race
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cold molding compound
complete generalization
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constern
cormosest
cosmological harmony
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development hell
dishonorablenesses
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escrow credit
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heating bath
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lakesha
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liquid drop model for fission
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make-busy jack
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mindings
morbus vagabondus
myoporthosis
national expenditure
nectaring
Neil Robertson stretcher
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ofart
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panelswitch
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partially owned subsidiary
pay slips
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pisqui
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post-Victorian
potical pyrometer
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radio-phonograph
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scholzite
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steppers
structure array
TCCS
tear shell
technological dystopia
telemetry checkout system
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tortures
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