electing
v. (進行)選舉( elect的現在分詞 ); 推舉; 選擇; 決定(做某事)
When people elect someone, they choose that person to represent them, by voting for them.
The people of the Philippines have voted to elect a new president...
菲律賓人民已投票選舉出了一位新總統。
Manchester College elected him Principal in 1956...
曼徹斯特學院於1956年推選他做院長。
If you elect to do something, you choose to do it.
Those electing to smoke will be seated at the rear.
那些想吸菸的人將坐在後排。
Elect is added after words such as 'president' or 'governor' to indicate that a person has been elected to the post but has not officially started to carry out the duties involved.
...the date when the president-elect takes office.
候任總統就職日
Those electing to smoke will be seated at the rear.
那些想吸菸的人將坐在後排。
The country is about to take a radical departure by electing a woman as its new president.
該國將發生重大轉變,選舉一位女性擔任新總統。
He proposes electing Franc to appoint a director.
他提議推選法朗西斯爵士任董事.
Tom's friends stabbed him in the back by electing his opponent, John.
湯姆的朋友背叛了他,選了其對手約翰.
This is one sure way of electing ignorant and incompetent men as senators.
這就是許多不學無術之徒也登堂入室,當選議員的原因.