suffrage
/ˈsʌfrɪdʒ/ (bre, ipa) · [sˈʌfrɪdʒ] /ˈsʌfrɪdʒ/ (ame, ipa) · [sˈʌfrɪdʒ] /ˈsə-frij How to pronounce suffrage (audio) sometimes -fə-rij How to pronounce suffrage (audio)/ (ame, mw)
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。
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。
- 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.