1.[u][c]选举，推选（尤指从政）the process of choosing a person or a group of people for a position, especially a political position, by voting
election campaigns/results竞选运动；选举结果
to win/lose an election在选举中获胜╱失败
to fight an election参加竞选
to vote in an election参加投票选举
In America, presidential elections are held every four years.美国每四年举行一次总统选举。
The prime minister is about to call(= announce) an election .首相即将宣布举行大选。
How many candidates are standing for election ?有多少候选人参加竞选？
to run for election参加竞选
2.[u]当选the fact of having been chosen by election
We welcome his election as president.我们欢迎他当选总统。
a year after her election to the committee她获选进入该委员会之后一年
By the time of the next election, the hacking saga will probably seem more of a sideshow than a slide into national decadence.
到下次大选时，窃听事件看上去更有可能是一场花絮，而不会发展为全国性的堕落。
He did not always win popularity, or re-election.
他并不总受欢迎，也并不总能赢得选举。
However, he said he was "not thinking at all about a double election at present" .
然而，安倍表示，他“目前根本没有考虑提前举行大选。”
IN HIS campaign for the general election on August 21st, Tony Abbott, the opposition leader, has run into a problem with women.
在8月21日大选的竞选活动中，反对党领袖托尼•艾伯特没能处理好与女性选民的关系。
To ordinary people the absence of a central authority since October's general election is not always noticeable.
从（去年）10月份大选过后的中央权力机关的缺失对于普通人来说并不能引起太大的注意。
Hager, who has been a White House aide and worked on Bush's re-election campaign, is the son of John and Maggie Hager of Richmond, Va.
哈格曾是白宫的一名助手，并曾为布什连任竞选效力。他是弗吉尼亚州里士满约翰•哈格和麦琪•哈格的儿子。
Cameron was already seen as close to News Corp. , having courted the company in an effort to win its election endorsement.
卡梅伦已被视为与新闻集团关系密切，一直讨好该公司，以便在选举中赢得该公司的支持。
But the army will surely have told the president he cannot attempt to stay on in what would be another sham election due this September.
但军方肯定已告诉穆巴拉克，他不可能试图在今年9月另一场冒牌选举中连任。
Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, prepared to be sworn into office nearly a year after his election.
斯里兰卡总统马欣达.拉贾帕克萨，在其选举近一年后准备宣誓就职。
The Democratic Party used its new power to frustrate Mr. Fukuda's government, with the aim of forcing him to call a general election.
民主党已经在用它新近获得的参议院控制权来打击福田康夫政府，目的是迫使他宣布举行大选。
Some have expressed concern that the unusual nature of this election might hamper the next president in the conduct of his office.
有些人担心这次特别的选举，会对下届总统推行政务造成不利的影响。
Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird, the great survivor, had indicated his desire to leave well before the 1972 election.
不倒翁国防部长梅尔文·R·莱尔德已表示希望早在1972年的选举之前就离职。
If the Tories win the impending general election, he said, there will not be a plebiscite of any kind on Europe.
他表示，在本次大选中，如果保守党能当选，则该党不再就任何欧洲问题进行公投。
"My sister had disappeared during one of the big demonstrations right after the election and we were told she was dead, " she said.
“在大选后一次大型示威游行期间，我姐姐已经失踪，我们听说她死了。”
Fleischer said he wanted to leave the hard-driving job before Bush's re - election campaign geared up.
弗莱舍说他想在布什总统开始新一轮总统竞选开始之前离开这一艰难的工作岗位。
She said the Democrats can only do so much and that the Presidential election in November 2008 will make all the difference on the war.
她说民主党只能做那么多，而且08年11月的总统大选将使战争有所改观。
The red-shirts are trying to force Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to step down and call an election.
红衫军试图逼迫总理AbhisitVejjajiva下台并要求重新选举。
Expectations of him were possibly too high when he won his first of three general election victories in 1997, he said.
他表示，当他1997年赢得三次大选胜利中的首次时，人们对他的期望可能过高了。
'This [trip] was the easy part, ' Mr. Cronin said. 'When he gets back to Washington, it's going to all politics, budget and election. '
克罗宁说，这次访问对奥巴马来说是相对较轻松的部分，他回到华盛顿后将面临政治、预算和竞选等棘手的问题。
None of this seems to have dented Mr Fico's popularity ratings, which put him in a good position to win the election next summer.
所有这些似乎都不曾影响菲佐先生的支持率，他的优势已令他获得明年夏季的选举权。
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