noun🔗Share划分选区使某党获利, 不公正划分选区 The act of gerrymandering."By this iniquitous practice, which is known as the gerrymander, the party in a minority in each State is allowed to get only about one-half or one-quarter of its proper share of representation."通过这种被称为“划分选区使某党获利”的卑劣手段,每个州的少数党只能获得其应有代表权的一半甚至四分之一。politicsgovernmentChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share选区划分不公的选区, 杰利蝾螈选区 A voting district skewed by gerrymandering."Any citizen looking at a map of district 12 could immediately tell that it was a gerrymander because of the ridiculous way it cut across 4 counties while carving up neighborhoods in half."任何公民只要看一眼第12选区的地图, 就能立刻看出这是一个选区划分不公的选区(杰利蝾螈选区),因为它荒谬地跨越了四个县, 还把好几个社区硬生生地分割成两半。politicsgovernmentstatelawChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share划分选区以利于某党,不公正划分选区 To divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election."The city council gerrymandered the voting districts to favor the incumbent mayor's party. "市议会通过不公正地划分选区,使得现任市长的党派在选举中占据优势。politicsgovernmentChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗Share划分选区以利某党,不公正划分选区. (by extension) To draw dividing lines for other types of districts in an unintuitive way to favor a particular group or for other perceived gain."The superintendent helped gerrymander the school district lines in order to keep the children of the wealthy gated community in the better school all the way across town."为了让富人社区的孩子能一直去位于城市另一端的好学校,学区主管暗箱操作,不合理地划分了学区界限。politicsgovernmentChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading