poll

英 [pəʊl] 美[pol]

n. 投票；民意测验；投票数；投票所
vt. 投票；剪短；对…进行民意测验；获得选票
vi. 投票
adj. 无角的；剪过毛的；修过枝的
n. (Poll)人名；(德、匈、罗、英)波尔

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中文词源

poll 头，头部，投票选举，民意调查，剪枝，修剪

来自中古英语polle,头皮，头部，头，来自中古德语pol,头，顶点，顶部，来自Proto-Germanic*pullaz,头，头顶，圆形物体，来自PIE*boul,圆形物体，鼓起，泡沫，来自PIE*beu,吹，膨胀，鼓起，词源同ball,pouch,.引申词义数人头，投票，投票选举，民意调查以及动词词义剪头，剪枝，修剪等。

词态变化

复数: polls;第三人称单数: polls;过去式: polled;过去分词: polled;现在分词: polling;

英文词源

poll: poll: [13] ‘Head’ is the original and central meaning of poll, from which all its modern uses have derived. The ‘voting’ sort of poll, for instance, which emerged in the 17th century, is etymologically a counting of ‘heads’, and the poll tax is a ‘per capita’ tax. The verb poll originally meant ‘cut someone’s hair’, a clear extension of the notion of ‘top’ or ‘head’ (the derived pollard [16] denotes an ‘animal with its horns removed’ or a ‘tree with its top branches cut off’); this later developed to ‘cut evenly across’, which is what the poll of deed poll means (originally it was a legal agreement cut evenly across, signifying that only one person was party to it – agreements made between two or more people were cut with a wavy line).
=> pollard
poll (n.): "head," early 14c., polle "hair of the head; piece of fur from the head of an animal," also "head," from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch pol "head, top." Sense extended early 14c. to "person, individual." Meaning "collection of votes" is first recorded 1620s, from notion of "counting heads;" meaning "survey of public opinion" is first recorded 1902. Poll tax, literally "head tax," is from 1690s. Literal use in English tends toward the part of the head where the hair grows.
poll (v.1): "to take the votes of," 1620s, from poll (n.). Related: Polled; polling. A deed poll "deed executed by one party only," is from earlier verbal meaning "cut the hair of," because the deed was cut straight rather than indented (see indent).
poll (v.2): "to cut, trim," late 14c., "to cut short the hair" (of an animal or person), from poll (n.). Of trees or plants from 1570s. Related: Polled; polling.
Poll: fem. proper name, short for Polly. Noted from 1620s as a parrot's name.

双语例句

1. He will have been heartened by the telephone opinion poll published yesterday.: 他会为昨天公布的电话民意调查结果感到鼓舞。

2. The poll canvassed the views of almost eighty economists.: 民意调查征询了将近80位经济学家的意见。

3. Labour was top of the poll with forty-six percent.: 工党以46%的得票数高居首位。

4. An independent opinion poll published today shows growing discontent with the government.: 今天发表的一项独立民意测验表明民众对政府的不满正与日俱增。

5. A national poll shows the presidential race in a dead heat.: 一项全国民意调查显示总统竞选相持不下。

英英释意

1. an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people

2. the top of the head

3. the part of the head between the ears

4. a tame parrot

5. the counting of votes (as in an election)

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Waiters, keen observers of humanity that they are, are catching on to this; in one poll, a full 30% said they didn't believe the job they did had any impact on the tips they received.

A recent Harris poll revealed that 79% of Americans say they enjoy cooking and 30% love it; 14% admit to not enjoying kitchen work and just 7% won't go near the stove at all.

For many families the recession means more than not booking a holiday A You Gov poll of 2, 000 people found 22% said they were arguing more with their partners because of concerns about money.

The You Gov poll of 2, 000 people indicates that in a recession it is more expensive for couples to split up

Results of a recent Harry's poll on free time shows that the average-work week for many Americans is 50 hours.

The results of a Harry's poll showed that reading was the most popular spare time activity in the US

What is the recent Harry's Poll mainly about?

A recent Harris poll revealed that 79% of Americans say they enjoy cooking and 30% "love it"; 14% admit to not enjoying kitchen work and just 7% won't go near the stove at all.

The most recent National Journal poll asked respondents about the American dream, what it takes to achieve their goals, and whether or not they felt a significant amount of control over their ability to be successful.

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-year-olds—are way down: Little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first given the vote.

Recent polls by the Pew Research Centre in Washington, DC, found that 75-80 per cent of participants regarded climate change as an important issue.

survey, about half the teens polled said that their cell phone hadimproved their communication with friends.

While schools emphasize its usefulness-online research in class and instant polling of students, for example - a big part of the attraction is, undoubtedly, that the iPhone is cool and a hit with students.

Public opinion polls show that people in most rich countries already think that immigration is too high.

More young voters are going to the polls than before.

While polls show Britons rate “the countryside” alongside the royal family, Shakespeare and the National Health Service ( ' , NHS) as what makes them proudest of their country, this has limited political support.

Against a backdrop of drastic changes in economy and population structure, younger Americans are drawing a new 21st-century road map to success, a latest poll has found.

One Gallup poll found that 20 percent of Americans who have been unemployed for at least a year report having depression, double the rate for working Americans.

实用场景例句

to carry out/conduct a poll: 进行民意测验

A recent poll suggests some surprising changes in public opinion.: 最近的调查反映民意有了出人意表的变化。

The final result of the poll will be known tomorrow.: 投票结果将于明天公布。

Thursday is traditionally the day when Britain goes to the polls (= when elections are held) .: 英国传统的投票选举日是星期四。

Polls close (= voting ends) at 9 p.m.: 投票于晚上9点结束。

Labour is ahead in the poll.: 工党的得票数领先。

They gained 20% of the poll.: 他们得到了20%的选票。

They polled 39% of the vote in the last election.: 在上届选举中，他们获得了39%的选票。

The Republicans have polled well (= received many votes) in recent elections.: 共和党在最近的选举中得票数都很漂亮。

Over 50% of those polled were against the proposed military action.: 民调中有超过50%的人反对拟议的军事行动。

Polls show that the European treaty has gained support in Denmark...: 民意测验显示该欧盟条约已在丹麦获得支持。

We are doing a weekly poll on the president, and clearly his popularity has declined...: 我们每周就总统进行一次民意调查，很显然他的支持率下降了。

More than 18,000 people were polled...: 超过1.8万人接受了民意测验。

Audiences were going to be polled on which of three pieces of contemporary music they liked best...: 将对观众进行民意调查，询问他们在3部当代音乐作品中最喜欢哪一部。

In 1945, Winston Churchill was defeated at the polls...: 温斯顿·丘吉尔在1945年的大选中被击败。

Voters are due to go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president...: 选民应于星期日前往投票站选举新总统。

It was a disappointing result for the Greens who polled three percent...: 这个结果让绿党感到失望，他们只获得了3%的选票。

The result showed he had polled enough votes to force a second ballot.: 结果显示，他已获得了足够把对手拖入二次投票的票数。

This is a variation of the methods shown in fig . 2.20.: 这是图2.20所示的方法的一个变种.

They went there to poll.: 他们去那里投选票.

The newspaper took a poll of 300 people to see what the man in the street thinks.: 那家报纸对三百人进行了民意测验,看普通老百姓有些什么想法.

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