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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AACS
Abylopsis
acute slossitis
advanced registry of merit
alternating-current plate resistance
Arnold-Chiari syndrome
arsenic powder
austenaging
bartered
beaded counter
beam diverging
Berlese's crgan
blikanasaurids
blood fluke
bouffons (france)
break sth in two
breakbacks
Briarcliff Manor
campus area network
capitals of switzerland
centrostaltic
ceramic heater
chak
charging fuse
churs
common error
culture in net cage
Dan Patch
desolaters
disogluside
equatorial current
exchange office
exhaust air box
feeling me up
field of view meter
foggins
functional subject
galvanoscope
gate arch
gloeosporium chrysantemi hori
grain sludge
having in mind
hemi-splenic transplantation
instantaneous sound pressure
It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
juvenile nitrogen
key-to-disk data input system
knewleche
Kutta-Joukowski condition
law of negotiable instrument
LC (level control)
liberty taker
local line network with link circuit
low frequency range
medical skill
merre
metallurgical product analysis
Microfiber cloth
mightve
money order counterfoil
n-tuple register
nil-paid share
nonfungible thing
nonmethodical
North Atlanticans
O-soto-gari
onion mildews
page source
paratenial nucleus
pendulum-pump
pents
perrierie
Petrofina SA
phonetics
pieman
red chrome
regulating mass
relike
repair and maintenance of heat-supply system
research program
resorption refrigerating system
risibles
rural traffic survey
screw that
sharav
Silene koreana
sluglike
solar powered space vehicle
Sonerila shanlinensis
sound a note of warning
specific product of labor
spoons out
Stock Idea
stratigraphic profile
stress dispersion capacity
thermovolumetric analysis
UKNDL (United Kingdom Nuclear Data Library)
under eating
unkeamed
vaginal sinus
yeaven
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