poll
英[pəʊl] 美[poʊl]
"pollard trees"
1.民意测验；民意调查
Apoll is a survey in which people are asked their opinions about something, usually in order to find out how popular something is or what people intend to do in the future.
e.g. 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。
e.g. We are doing a weeklypoll 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。
2.对…进行民意测验（或调查）
If youare polled on something, you are asked what you think about it as part of a survey.
e.g. More than 18,000 people were polled...
超过1.8万人接受了民意测验。
e.g. 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。
3.政治选举；大选；投票地点
The polls means an election for a country's government, or the place where people go to vote in an election.
e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。
4.获得（…票数）
If a political party or a candidatepolls a particular number or percentage of votes, they get that number or percentage of votes in an election.
e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。
5. see also: polling;deed poll
1. 民意测验：整数常量,用于指明支持的线程安全(thread safety)级别,可能的值有:贯穿本参考, 我们都会引用下面的民意测验(poll)应用程序:
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.
The horse..is resisting by tilting his poll or the top of his head.
出自：E. BairdHe polled his head at every year's end..for by then the hair was long.
出自：J. Heller