suffrage
suffrage — 名詞
1. the legal right of people in a country or community to choose their political re
投票權
公民依法參與選舉的權利
the legal right of people in a country or community to choose their political representatives in elections
The museum's new exhibit traces the fight for women's suffrage in Britain.
博物館的新展覽追溯英國爭取婦女投票權的歷程。
fight for suffrage — common historical pattern
Bao wrote a history paper on how universal suffrage changed Taiwan's elections.
Bao 的歷史報告寫的是普遍投票權如何改變台灣的選舉。
universal suffrage — voting rights for all adults
After years of protest, the law finally granted suffrage to all adult citizens.
經過多年抗爭，這項法律終於把投票權授予所有成年公民。
grant suffrage to [group]
Yara joined a campus march marking a century of women's suffrage.
Yara 參加了校園遊行，紀念婦女獲得投票權滿一百年。
Henrik argued that property rules once limited suffrage in the province.
Henrik 主張，財產規定曾經限制了該省的投票權。
- women's suffrage
- universal suffrage
- fight for suffrage
- grant suffrage
- deny suffrage
- franchise
more formal and often used in legal or historical discussion about the vote as a civil right
- voting rights
the more common modern phrase, especially in journalism and public debate
- disenfranchisement
the condition of being denied the right to vote
文法句型
fight for suffrage
grant suffrage to [group]
universal suffrage
用法筆記
Mostly used in historical, legal, and political writing, often with modifiers such as women's, universal, or equal. In modern everyday English, people more often say voting rights.
常見錯誤
同根字
- suffragist名詞C2
- suffragette名詞C2
- enfranchise動詞C2
- disenfranchise動詞C1