名詞 plebiscite:

1. a vote by the electorate determining public opinion on a question of national importance

1. It was decided by plebiscite.
   那件事是通過(guò)公民投票決定的。
2. The question of which state the minority group should belong to was decided by (a) plebiscite.
   該少數(shù)民族應(yīng)歸屬哪一州的問(wèn)題已由公民投票表決。
3. A plebiscite was held to decide the fate of the country.
   舉行了公民投票以決定國(guó)家的命運(yùn)。

pleb.i.scite

n.（名詞）
A direct vote in which the entire electorate is invited to accept or refuse a proposal:
公民投票：邀請(qǐng)全體選舉人來(lái)接受或拒絕一項(xiàng)提議的直接投票：
例句：
.a new constitution, which his people dutifully ratified in a plebiscite.(New York Times)
.由他的人民在公民投票中盡職地批準(zhǔn)通過(guò)的新憲法.(紐約時(shí)報(bào))

A vote in which a population exercises the right of national self-determination.
公民表決：人們行使其國(guó)家自決權(quán)的表決

來(lái)源：
French plébiscite
法語(yǔ) plébiscite
from Latin plôbiscotum
源自 拉丁語(yǔ) plôbiscotum
plôbis [genitive of] plôbs [the people] * see pel…-
plôbis [] plôbs的所有格 [人民] *參見(jiàn) pel…-
scotum [decree] [from neuter past participle of] scoscere [to vote for] [inchoative of] score [to know] * see skei-
scotum [法令] [] 源自scoscere的中性過(guò)去分詞 [選舉] [] score的起始動(dòng)詞 [知道] *參見(jiàn) skei-

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