suffrage
n 投票,投票权(suf在下面+frage→打碎器皿庆祝胜利→表示赞成→投票)
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suffrage
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◙ noun1. [mass noun] the right to vote in political elections• 选举权,投票权 [count noun] (archaic)a vote given in assent to a proposal or in favour of the election of a particular person• [古] 赞成票;提名票2. [一般作 suffrages] (in the Book of Common Prayer) the intercessory petitions pronounced by a priest in the Litany• (《英国国教祈祷书》中的)代祷 a series of petitions pronounced by the priest with the responses of the congregation• (牧师与信徒以一唱一和的方式所作的)祈求 (archaic)intercessory prayers, especially those for the dead• [古] (尤指为死去的人所作的)代祈【语源】
1. late Middle English (in the sense 'intercessory prayers', also 'assistance'): from Latin suffragium, reinforced by French suffrage. The modern sense of 'right to vote' was originally US (dating from the late 18th cent.)
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