vote down

1. PHRASAL VERB 投票否决;投票拒绝
   If people vote down a person or their proposal, they reject that person or proposal, usually as a result of a formal vote.
   1. The Congress voted down a motion to change the union's structure...
      国会投票否决了改变工会结构的动议。
   2. If he demands too much, the unions will vote him down.
      如果他要求太多，工会就会投票撤换他。

1. Once the vote was taken, things quieted down quickly
   一旦投完票，事情便很快平息了下来。
2. The Congress voted down a motion to change the union's structure
   国会投票否决了改变工会结构的动议。
3. If he demands too much, the unions will vote him down.
   如果他要求太多，工会就会投票撤换他。
4. At the next vote, we must try to bring down the government.
   下次投票选举时，我们一定设法把现政府搞垮。
5. Despite all the talk of a sweeping big 'no' to austerity, we found that only a fifth of the public was fundamentally opposed to it and would vote down any proposal that we put forth to a vote.
   尽管很多人都在谈，对紧缩政策彻底地回答一个大大的不，但我们发现，只有五分之一的公众对它持根本性的反对态度，对我们提出的任何方案都会投票反对。
6. The bill adds dozens of negotiating objectives requested by lawmakers, who still could vote down any deal struck.
   法案增加了议员所要求的数十个谈判目标，他们仍然有权否决已经达成的所有协议。
7. Voters were understandably confused by the identical Caser names on the ballot, and the split vote sent the real candidate Caser down to defeat in the primary.
   选举人被选票上一模一样卡瑟的名字弄糊涂，因而选票分手，导致真正的候选人在初选时就落选，这是可以理解的。
8. The man who gave his vote for the longest time, on having his judgment disputed, grew stubborn, and doubled his time. What's the longest she's held down a job?
   那主张最长时间的人因为受了批驳而更加坚持，又把时间放长了一倍。她任职时间最长的是什麽工作？
9. We vote for many reasons a sense of duty, a desire to participate, and so on but nobody votes under the illusion that it's all down to him.
   我们参加投票有许多理由，比如出于责任感、参与愿望等等，但没有人会幻想这一切取决于自己。
10. I believe the onus is upon us to vote down the project.
    我认为我有责任否决这项工程。
11. If an answer is obviously wrong ( or inferior in some way), you vote it down.
    但如果答案明显是错的（或者比较差），也可以给它减一票。
12. We are left with no choice but to vote it down.
    我们别无选择，只能投票反对这项计划。
13. Though it seems unlikely that shareholders will actually vote down the proposed capital injection, the bank is facing an uncomfortable shareholders 'meeting at the end of February.
    虽然股东们似乎不大可能投票否决拟议中的资金注入，但该银行在2月底召开的股东大会将不会平静。
14. But opponents of the duties, including Lord Mandelson, the UK business secretary, seized on the vote to argue that the Commission should back down.
    但包括英国商务大臣曼德尔森勋爵（lordmandelson）在内，该关税的反对者抓住延长建议被否决的机会表示，欧盟委员会应该放弃了。
15. Some suspect the timing of the no-confidence vote may be linked to Mr Kan's recent calls to deregulate the energy industry and scale down the importance of nuclear power.
    据悉，自民党在这个时候提出不信任案也许跟菅直人最近想撤销对能源工业的管制以及缩减核能的重要性有关。
16. US companies have begun cutting pay and benefits for top executives – and disclosing more details of packages – anticipating the effect of new rules that give shareholders greater power to vote down remuneration structures.
    由于预见到新规的影响，一些美国公司已开始削减高管薪酬和福利，并披露薪酬方案的更多细节。新的规则将赋予股东更大的权力，以投票否决薪酬结构。
17. Including general conflict problem," a vote down "problem and" robustness "problem, the conflict problems of multi-source information processing based on D-S theory are analyzed in the paper.
    在多源信息融合处理中，针对基于D-S理论融合产生的冲突问题，进行了全面分析和总结，归纳为三个方面的问题：一般冲突问题、一票否决问题及鲁棒性问题；

verb

1. vote against
   1. The faculty turned thumbs down on the candidate for the Dean position

   Synonym:    turn thumbs down

2. thwart the passage of
   1. kill a motion
   2. he shot down the student's proposal

   Synonym:    killshoot downdefeatvote out