So they do not have stars,either. Some of the territories, like Puerto Rico and Guam, may vote to become states in the future.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

Now,there was even a group of nobles who believed that they could be elected, that if you had an election people would actually vote to restore the monarchy.

当时甚至有一群贵族,相信人们会选择君主制,相信如果人们有选举权,他们就会投票保留君主政体

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Although that might cause concern for some people, forcing people to vote is definitely not the answer.

也许这会让一些人担忧，但是强迫人们去投票绝对不是解决问题的方法。

对于义务投票制 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Senators can threaten a bill with unlimited debate unless sixty senators vote to prevent it.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

I'm sorry, you vote to convict, right?

不好意思，你是投的“有罪“，是吧？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

A candidate needs more than fifty percent of the vote to avoid a run-off election.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

I think that at least for many of us, there is a sort of logical conundrum we go through and that is, if good people don't vote then we'll be in a bad world; so I have to vote to prove that good people vote, then maybe it will happen.

我想,至少对大部分人来说,必须面对一个逻辑上的难题,就是,如果好人不投票,那我们将会生活在坏人操纵的世界里,所以我必须要投票,来证明好人会投票,那未来的国家将会由好人掌控

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He was afraid it might vote to secede.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Now here's a question for you guys, which we're going to vote on, so you better start thinking about it.

现在我希望，大家来，判断一下。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

The director of the Independent Election Commission, Dauod Ali Najafi, announced the vote totals to reporters in Kabul Saturday evening.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

We're also going to assume, just as we did last time, that voters are going to vote for the closest candidate.

我们还要假设,像上次一样,选民会选择离他最近的候选人

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Kurdistan Prime Minister Barham Saleh stressed the need for the vote to be perceived as open.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

And I am going to ask actually for a vote because I'm going to return to this.

事实上，我想要一次头片,因为我想要回到这个地方。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Mr.Karzai won the presidential election by default after his main challenger, Abdullah Abdullah, withdrew from a runoff, saying it was impossible for the vote to be fair.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

In 1875 there's an amendment to the Constitution that essentially- voted by one vote,or approved by one vote, by the Assembly--that essentially transforms France into a Republic.

875年有个宪法修正案,本质上--,它在一次议会投票表决中,得到了支持--本质上把法国变成了共和国

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

Members of a far-left minority party surrounded trade committee Chairman Park Jin's podium and tried to physically block a vote to advance the trade deal to a full ratification vote.

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

Anybody want to vote? Pardon? All right, someone wants to remove MIT. Sad but true.

有人想投票么？嗯？好，有些人想移除MIT，节哀吧。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And it comes after a recent U.N.Security Council vote to impose another round of sanctions against Tehran for its nuclear program and the U.S.Congress's approval of harsher unilateral sanctions against nations that supply Tehran with gasoline.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

They were very suspicious of the democratic tendencies, or so it seemed, the democratic tendencies of that northern society which was spreading literacy more widely, and eventually the right to vote more widely, at least among white people.

他们也对民主倾向表示怀疑,事实就是如此,有着民主倾向的北方社会,文化教育的开展更为广泛,因而更广大人民有着投票权,至少大部分白人有投票权

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

With just days to go before all preliminary vote totals are to be released, Afghan President Hamid Karzai's office is applauding the Independent Election Commission "for its efforts in pursuing the process in an impartial and faithful national spirit."

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Also, if your patron wanted to run for a city office, your patron would expect you to be loyal and vote for him.

作为回报，如果庇护人要竞选官职，就会要求你投他一票。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

"I want some courage. I want us to do the right thing, Ohio,and with your help we are going to make it happen!" Democrats need every vote to pass Mr.Obama's top domestic priority, and the president did win over one liberal holdout.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Because even in the Clinton Administration, around 1997, after we refused to vote for the International Criminal Court.

因为即使在克林顿执政期间，大约在1997年左右，在我们拒绝,给国际刑事法庭投票之后。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

His main opponent, the controversial mayor of Zagreb Milan Bandic, came in second with nearly The men will face each other in a final election round on January 10th, since they failed to gain the minimum of 50 percent plus one vote to win outright.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

All right, let's try again. How many people vote that this is reversible? That looks like a majority to me. Irreversible?

好的，让我们再试试,有多少人认为这是可逆的？,看上去大多数人都这么认为？

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

Since all 40 Republicans were on record as opposing the bill, the Democrats did not have a single vote to spare, needing every Democrat and Independent who normally votes with Democrats to cast their votes for it, or else have the vote dead before it ever reached the floor.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

So we'll assume that they're trying to maximize their share of the vote.

所以我们假设他们会尽可能地,最大化自己的得票数

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Democrats in the Senate have lost their sixty-vote supermajority needed to block any effort by Republicans to kill legislation.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

The fact that I have one, you know, five hundred thousandth of the vote for one representative in congress is not the same thing as my having the ability to decide for myself how to use my property rights.

事实是，我只有一张选票，50万选民才票选出,一位国会议员,这与我能自己决定如何行使我的财产权,是两回事。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

So voters vote for the closest candidate: the candidate whose position is closest to their own.

选民会投给最近的候选人,就是最接近自己的的候选人

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选