CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

大选

dàxuǎn

general election

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

general election

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 大选 actually appears in real sentences.

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妇女当时没有投票权，她们的希望被挫败，但是安-尼克松-库波尔活着看到妇女们站了起来，看到她们站出来发表自己的见解，看到她们参加大选投票。是的，我们能做到。fù nǚ dāng shí méi yǒu tóu piào quán， tā men de xī wàng bèi cuò bài， dàn shì ān - ní kè sōng - kù bō ěr huó zhe kàn dào fù nǚ men zhàn le qǐ lái， kàn dào tā men zhàn chū lái fā biǎo zì jǐ de jiàn jiě， kàn dào tā men cān jiā dà xuǎn tóu piào。 shì de， wǒ men néng zuò dào。

At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes, we can.

对于那些彻夜关注美国大选的海外人士，从国会到皇宫，以及在被遗忘的角落里挤在收音机旁的人们，我们的经历虽然各有不同，但是我们的命运是一样的，新的美国领导层已产生了。duì yú nà xiē chè yè guān zhù měi guó dà xuǎn de hǎi wài rén shì， cóng guó huì dào huáng gōng， yǐ jí zài bèi yí wàng de jiǎo luò lǐ jǐ zài shōu yīn jī páng de rén men， wǒ men de jīng lì suī rán gè yǒu bù tóng， dàn shì wǒ men de mìng yùn shì yī yàng de， xīn de měi guó lǐng dǎo céng yǐ chǎn shēng le。

And all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.

这次大选创造了多项第一，也诞生了很多将世代流传的故事。但是今天晚上令我难忘的却是在亚特兰大投票的一名妇女：安-尼克松-库波尔。她和其他数百万排队等待投票的选民没有什么差别，除了一点：她已是106岁的高龄。zhè cì dà xuǎn chuàng zào le duō xiàng dì yī， yě dàn shēng le hěn duō jiāng shì dài liú chuán de gù shì。 dàn shì jīn tiān wǎn shàng lìng wǒ nán wàng de què shì zài yà tè lán dà tóu piào de yī míng fù nǚ： ān - ní kè sōng - kù bō ěr。 tā hé qí tā shù bǎi wàn pái duì děng dài tóu piào de xuǎn mín méi yǒu shén me chā bié， chú le yì diǎn： tā yǐ shì 106 suì de gāo líng。

This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that's on my mind tonight is about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election, except for one thing: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 大选.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 大选.

Directly before

美国大选1
这次大选1
参加大选1

Directly after

大选的1
大选创造1
大选投票1

ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 大选

What does 大选 mean in Chinese?

大选 (dàxuǎn) means general election.

How do you pronounce 大选?

大选 is pronounced dàxuǎn.

Is 大选 an HSK word?

大选 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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