"but that ""there have been skilled organizers of opinion who. understood the mystery well enough to create majority on election day"". One of the factors involved in their creating majorities is just the mass media. "

但是,"西方有大批熟练的舆论组织者,他们能娴熟地利用神秘,在大选日制造出多数"。而制造多数的手段之一便是大众媒体。

madison also believed that the sheer size and geographic scope of the United States--even when the country consisted of just the 13 colonies--would make it difficult for sudden majorities to overwhelm the rights of a minority

麦迪生还认为,美国疆域辽阔--即便当时美国仅由13个殖民地组成--大多数人很难出其不意地压倒少数人的权利。

Thinking and Analysis of the Principles and Majorities Restructuring of Qinzhou University

钦州学院学科专业调整建设分析与思考-地级市所属高校发展研究之一

||1:Not coincidentally, these countries are among a handful in Latin America in which presidents now exercise near-absolute power.||2:Mr Correa, the late Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega deployed their electoral majorities to crush the independence of the judiciary, curb the media and hamper opposition.||3:In the extent of their power, if not in the route by which they obtained it, they resemble the region's 19th-century dictators—whose absolutism is captured in the title of a classic Paraguayan novel by Augusto Roa Bastos called “Yo, el Supremo”.

||1:并不是巧合，因为这三个国家均是拉丁美洲少数几个总统拥有近乎绝对统治权的国家。||2:厄瓜多尔总统拉斐尔·科雷亚将是下一个委内瑞拉总统乌戈·查韦斯。他和尼加拉瓜总统丹尼尔·奥尔特加部署了大多数选举席位以便遏制司法独立、控制媒体以及遏制反对派的行动。||3:除了获取权利的路线不同，他们的权利范围与该地区19世纪的独裁者有极大的相似之处。这些独裁者的专制统治在巴拉圭作家奥古斯托·罗亚·巴斯托斯的经典小说的标题中体现的淋漓尽致—《我，至高无上》。

||1:It is, perhaps, the most glaring failure of Mr Obama’s first term.||2:On his second full day in office, surrounded by 16 retired generals and admirals, he signed the order to close the facility that he said had probably created more terrorists than it ever detained.||3:With majorities in both chambers of Congress he looked set to make good on his pledge.||4:There was just one problem: the president had a timetable, but no plan.

||1:或许没有关闭关塔那摩战俘营就是奥巴马第一任期内最大的败笔。||2:在他正式行使总统职权的第二天，在16位退休将军和海军上将的注视下，他签署命令关闭关塔那摩战俘营，他曾表示由于这座战俘营的存在而引发出的恐怖分子有可能比在押者还要多。||3:此时在国会两院中民主党都享有多数票优势，一切都与他许诺的也一般无二，看上去他就要关闭关塔那摩战俘营了。||4:问题只有一个：总统有的只是张时间表，却没有任何操作计划。

||1:Indeed, the political risks to the euro may be greater now than they were at the height of the euro crisis in 2011-12.||2:What was striking then was that large majorities of ordinary voters preferred to stick with the single currency despite the austerity imposed by the conditions of their bail-outs, because they feared that any alternative would be even more painful.||3:Now that the economies of Europe seem a little more stable, the risks of walking away from the single currency may also seem smaller.

||1:确实，欧元的政治危机可能比2011-12年欧债危机顶峰时期更加危险。||2:令人惊讶的是，尽管当时由于紧急援助而使得人们不得不节衣缩食，绝大多数普通选民仍宁愿维持单一货币政策，因为他们担心任何改变会变得更糟。||3:现在，欧洲经济似乎变得稍微稳定了些，放弃单一欧元的风险也变得更小了。

||1:Change can even be detected in the state legislature, where Republicans hold crushing, three-to-one super-majorities in both houses.||2:The flow of kick-'em-out bills slowed in 2012 and 2013.||3:In 2014 a Republican state senator fromChattanooga, Todd Gardenhire, easily passed a law clarifying thatTennessee's public universities can admit American-born children of undocumented parents at the same discounted rate as other local residents.||4:He could not pass a more ambitious bill, offering in-state tuition rates to kids who came illegally as children and who do well at school, but Mr Gardenhire vows to try again.||5:In the past five years some 18,000 Hispanic families have headed to his district, he reports, many after neighbouringAlabamaandGeorgiapassed “draconian” laws.||6:Yes, they arrived illegally, but that is no reason to “punish kids”, argues the senator. “They are here, and they are trying to do their best.”||7:To date, lots of his colleagues are “afraid” of challenges from the right in party primaries.||8:But, hesays, they know that educating youngsters makes “economic sense”.

||1:甚至州立法院中都能察觉到这种改变，这里是共和党人的天下，他们在参众两院都以3:1的比例占据着绝对多数的席位。||2:主张“把他们踢出去”的法案洪流在2012和2013年放缓。||3:2014年，一位来自查塔努加名为托德·佳德海尔（Todd Gardenhire）的共和党州参议员轻松地通过了一项法律，明确了田纳西州的公立大学能够承认那些出生于美国但其父母没有合法文件的孩子，与当地居民享受同样的折扣率。||4:而通过一个更为激进的法案，即向非法来到美国但在学校表现很好的孩子们提供本州人享受的学费，看起来不太可能。但他发誓，他还要再试一次。||5:他说，在过去的五年中，有1.8万的拉美裔家庭搬来他所在的地区，其中许多是在毗邻的阿拉巴马和乔治亚通过了“严格”法律后才搬来的。||6:这位参议员说：“我们承认，他们是非法移民，但我们没有理由去惩罚孩子。他们已经来了，并且他们正在努力去做最好的自己。”||7:时至今日，他许多的同事都“害怕”在党内初选中受到右翼的挑战。||8:但是他说，他们也知道，青年人的教育具有经济意义。

||1: DOES a bill that does nothing actually do something? ||2: This is not a Zen koan, but a legislative one, being tested this month in Tennessee. ||3: The bill in question required the state’s education system to encourage students to “explore scientific questions” and “respond appropriately and respectfully to differences of opinion about scientific subjects”. ||4: It also protected teachers against punishment for “helping students understand, analyse, critique and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories.” ||5: It passed with big majorities in both chambers, and became law on April 10th when Bill Haslam, Tennessee’s governor, declined to veto it.

||1:一个没有具体措施的法案果真能“无为而治”吗？||2:这个本月在田纳西州试行的法案可不是禅宗的公案，而是确实具有法律效力的。||3:上述法案要求田纳西州的教育制度鼓励学生“探讨科学问题”并“包容、尊重关于科学问题的不同见解”。||4:根据法案，教师还能“帮助学生以客观的方式理解、分析、评论及考察现存科学理论中的优缺点”而不受处罚。||5: 法案在参众两院以多数票获得通过，4月10日，田纳西州州长比尔-哈斯拉姆（Bill Haslam）拒绝对法案进行否决，于是该法案在当日正式生效。

overwhelming majorities , in all countries, either "agree" or "strongly agree. "

“时，所有国家的多数人或者”同意“或者”非常认同。

In 2010 both chambers of the state legislature boasted Republican majorities for the first time since 1870.

2010年，共和党人自1870年以来第一次在该州参众两院都占据了多数席位。

But the past two Democratic presidents had their share of problems early on, even though both had Democratic majorities in the Congress.

此前的两位民主党总统在上任之初都遇到了问题，尽管当时的国会都由民主党控制。

In addition, the majorities the Democrats won in the House and Senate are strong, but not overwhelming.

此外，民主党在参众两院获得了明显的多数席位，但却并不是压倒性多数。

However, majorities of both blacks and whites did agree that the country is ready for an African-American president.

但是，大部分黑人和白人都认为，美国可以接受一位非洲裔美国人出任总统。

Greater trauma awaits the FDP, which may be so weakened that it can no longer furnish coalitions with majorities .

等待自由民主党的则是更为深重的创伤，该党可能受到严重削弱，以至于不能再配合多数党组建执政联盟。

Fourth, the Islamists will not on their own win outright majorities in the new parliaments.

第四，伊斯兰教徒如果仅凭他们自己则无法赢得新国会的大多数席位。

Some in the Obama camp have pooh-poohed as small-ball those items that Clinton chased after losing his congressional majorities .

对于克林顿在民主党失去国会大多数席位后所追求的那些东西，奥巴马阵营中的一些人嗤之以鼻，认为它们无关紧要。

Majorities also said countries had a right to go to war to ensure adequate energy supplies.

多数人还表示，各国有权为确保充足的能源供应而战。

Russians also remain largely positive towards China (60%), as do majorities in Middle Eastern countries.

俄罗斯对中国也主要持积极态度（60%）。大多数中东国家也是如此。

Methods With a self-administered questionnaire, a total of 519 students of three majorities in Yiyang Health School were surveyed.

方法采用自制问卷对益阳卫校职教3个专业共519名学生进行调查。

Under the Lisbon treaty, this can be adopted by majorities that circumvent a Cypriot veto.

根据《里斯本条约》，这个可能被大部分成员国接受从而回避塞浦路斯否决权。

The Communists have run it non-stop since 1977, with large majorities .

共产党自1977年开始执政便是一党独大，但是此次遭遇滑铁卢。

The Conservatives have rock-solid majorities in about 60 of parliament's 308 seats, mainly in rural and western areas.

国会的308个席位中，有60人来自保守党，他们是保守党坚实可靠的力量，大多来自郊区和西部地区。

although the Democrats held bulletproof majorities there.

尽管民主党在那里拥有无法动摇的大多数

Democrats elected by majorities in their own districts had therefore drawn votes from people who voted for Perot for president.

民主党当选的大多数人都认为自己的地区所以画投票的人的选票为佩罗特总统竞选。

The Democrats are poised to increase their majorities on Capitol Hill and have a better-than-even chance of taking the White House.

民主党人现在已做好在国会山增加其多数党席位的准备，而且他们夺取白宫的几率可称得上是前所未有。

Next year a sympathetic President Obama, and big Democratic majorities in both houses of the new Congress, should ensure that.

明年，具有同情心的总统奥巴马，协同在新的国会参议两院中占有绝大数席位的民主党将会使这一救援得以实现。

Currently, majorities or pluralities in 15 of 21 countries outside of China have a positive view of this rising Asian power.

目前，在除中国外被调查的21个国家中，15个国家的多数或相对多数被访者对这一崛起中的亚洲大国持积极态度。

People follow confidence, and the majorities of popular people are confident or at least pretend to be.

人们跟着自信的人走，受欢迎的人要么自信，要么假装自信。

lose their majorities in both chambers of Congress

丧失对国会两院的控制权

Even a newly proposed rule to limit the banks' influence over clearing allows them to retain majorities on risk committees.

甚至一个限制银行对清算所的影响的提案还能允许他们在风险管理委员会中占有多数席位。

election of majorities

多数选举制