canvassing

英 [ˈkænvəsɪŋ]

美 [ˈkænvəsɪŋ]

v.  游说; 拉选票; 调查(民意); 征求(意见); 努力争取支持
canvass的现在分词

现在分词：canvassing　

BNC.34383 / COCA.42481

柯林斯词典

• VERB 游说;拉选票
  If youcanvass fora particular person or political party, you go around an area trying to persuade people to vote for that person or party.
  1. I'm canvassing for the Conservative Party...
     我在为保守党拉选票。
• VERB 征询,征求(公众意见)
  If youcanvasspublic opinion, you find out how people feel about a particular subject.
  1. Members of Parliament are spending the weekend canvassing opinion in their constituencies.
     国会议员这个周末要向所在选区的选民征求意见。
  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。

英英释义

noun

• persuasion of voters in a political campaign
  Synonym:electioneeringbell ringing

双语例句

• The home secretary has been canvassing support for his new crime bill.
  内政大臣一直在为新的犯罪法案寻求支持。
• We have sufficient canvassing abilities to be your sole agent.
  我们有充分的调研能力来做贵司的独家代理。
• I am canvassing for the magazine tonight.
  今晚我要去为杂志征求订户。
• He was busy canvassing before the election.
  在大选前，他在忙着拉选票。
• Each election produces one canvassing encounter that sticks in the memory.
  每次选举总发生一场令人难忘的竞选角逐。
• He is canvassing for the conservative candidate.
  他正在替保守党候选人奔走拉票。
• It was, he says, merely a way of canvassing public opinion.
  他说，这不过是一种讨论公共问题的方式罢了。
• What I expect Mr Lamy will find, in the process of canvassing WTO members, is that the US, Europe, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Chile, New Zealand, Singapore and a number of other countries would want to move towards free trade immediately.
  我预计，拉米在游说世贸组织成员国时将会发现，美国、欧洲、加拿大、墨西哥、澳大利亚、智利、新西兰、新加坡以及许多其它国家会希望迅速推进自由贸易。
• Six of the 18 judges will also be replaced, in a ballot preceded by an unseemly round of bargaining and canvassing.
  在一轮容易遭到非议的交易与游说之后，也将通过投票替换18名法官中的6名。
• From a distance, the legions of search teams canvassing the flattened terrain here resemble a colony of white ants crawling over dirt.
  从远处看，正在彻查土地的军团搜救小组想是一群爬行在污垢上的白蚁，这块土地几乎被夷为平地。