英语释义

• the age at which a person is old enough to vote in public elections

片语

lower the voting age把投票年龄降低

minimum voting age最低投票年龄

he is of voting age他成年了

voting age populationVoting age population (VAP) refers to the set of individuals that have reached the minimum voting age for a particular geography or political unit. The presumption is that they are therefore generally eligible to vote, although other additional factors may cause them to be ineligible, such as lack of citizenship or a prior felony convictio

英汉例句

• the voting age in india is 18. girls can legally marry at 18 and boys at 21, although the law is often flouted, especially in rural areas.

  女子出嫁的合法年龄是18岁，男子娶妻是21岁。尽管这个规定常被漠视，尤其在乡下。

• in 1970, president nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18.

  1970年，尼克松总统签署一项法案，把选举年龄降到18岁。

• indeed, minorities are now in the majority in texas, with hispanics alone accounting for about 38% of the population—although their share of legal residents of voting age is smaller.

  事实上，如今在德州，少数民族才是大多数，光拉美裔人口就占总人口的38%（尽管拉美裔人口中达到合法选举年龄的人数比例较低）。

• he pushed to finance pell grants for college scholarships and to ensure all children were covered by health insurance, and fought to lower the voting age to 18.

  他推行建立佩尔基金以资助在读大学生，确保所有的儿童都有医疗保险，并为将法定投票年龄降低到18岁而奋斗。

• similarly, those who were already of voting age when proposition 13 passed were most likely to answer incorrectly and the youngest correctly.

  同样的，那些13号法案通过时就已届选龄的老选民最可能答错，最年轻的最可能答对。

• what is the minimum voting age in the united states?

  美国最低的选举年龄是多少?。

• the province decide by plebiscite to lower the voting age to eighteen.

  该省用平民表决的方法将选举年龄降至18岁。

• and dogs grow quickly in the first couple of years, with bigger breeds reaching the equivalent of u.s. voting age in toddlerhood, by age two.

  狗在生命前两年长的非常快，体型较大的品种两岁就能发育成熟，达到相当于美国选民法定年龄的水平。