ballot
音标：
英音/ ˈbælət / 美音/ ˈbælət /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
“President Trump believes the American voters, not the courts, should decide who wins next year’s elections and we urge a swift dismissal of all such remaining bogus ballot challenges.”
“特朗普总统认为，应该由美国选民而不是法院来决定谁赢得明年的选举，我们敦促迅速驳回所有此类剩余的虚假选票挑战。”
—Washington Times
Judge Malloy ruled on a motion to dismiss by Mr. Buzzell’s lawyers, who argued that the state law prohibiting so-called ballot selfies was overly broad and violated the constitutional guarantee of free expression.
马洛伊法官对巴泽尔律师提出的驳回动议做出了裁决，他们认为禁止所谓投票自拍照的州法律过于宽泛，违反了宪法对言论自由的保障。
—New York Times
The former first minister wants to hold a vote next year on the 10th anniversary of the 2014 ballot.
这位前首席部长希望在明年2014年投票10周年之际举行投票。
—BBC
基本释意：
noun
a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting
（无记名）投票选举，投票表决；选票；投票总数（the ballot）
同义词：
balloting,vote,voting
短释义：
This Italian-derived word has proven remarkably successful by adapting itself to evolving voting technologies. It has been applied to devices used for casting votes from ancient times to the present, whether consisting of pottery, paper or pixels. Any kind of device, whether on paper or a computer screen, can be called a ballot if it lists the candidates and allows you to vote.
选票是列出选举期间选择的文件。竞选公职时，候选人的首要目标是获得选票。
长释义：
This Italian-derived word has proven remarkably successful by adapting itself to evolving voting technologies. It has been applied to devices used for casting votes from ancient times to the present, whether consisting of pottery, paper or pixels. Any kind of device, whether on paper or a computer screen, can be called a ballot if it lists the candidates and allows you to vote.
这个源自意大利语的单词通过适应不断发展的投票技术而被证明非常成功。从古至今，它一直被应用于投票的设备，无论是陶器、纸张还是像素。任何类型的设备，无论是在纸上还是在计算机屏幕上，如果列出了候选人并允许您投票，都可以称为选票。
文学例句：
She struts around the room in her white pumps and gives us the ballots to vote for Miss Congeniality.
她穿着白色高跟鞋在房间里大摇大摆地走来走去，并给我们选票来投票选出“友善小姐”。
—Like Vanessa by Tami Charles
When Howard finally let them go, the reporters went home and filled out their ballots for championship honors.
当霍华德最终让他们离开时，记者们回家填写了冠军荣誉的选票。
—Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
There were five stacks of ballots, one for each candidate, printed with the man’s name and his picture.
有五叠选票，每位候选人一张，上面印有该人的名字和照片。
—Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti by Frances Temple
词源：
ballot (n.)1540s, “small ball used in voting,” also “secret vote taken by ballots,” from Italian pallotte, diminutive of palla “ball,” for small balls used as counters in secret voting, from a Germanic source (from PIE root *bhel- (2) “to blow, swell”). The earliest references are to Venice. By 1776 the sense of the word had been extended to tickets or sheets of paper used in secret voting. Ballot box attested from 1670s; metonymically from 1834 as “system or practice of voting by ballot.”Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
ballot (n.)1540s，“投票中使用的小球”，也是“通过选票进行的秘密投票”，源自意大利语 pallotte，palla“球”的缩写，指在秘密投票中用作计数器的小球，来自日耳曼语源（源自 PIE 根 *bhel- (2)“吹，膨胀”）。最早的参考文献是威尼斯。到 1776 年，这个词的含义已扩展到用于无记名投票的票据或纸张。 1670 年代的投票箱经过验证；自 1834 年起转喻为“投票表决的系统或做法”。相关条目及更多内容
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