查询词典 gerrymandered

No state has quite so many overlapping systems of accountability or such a gerrymandered legislature.

美国没有哪个州会像加州这样，拥有如此庞大的责任重叠机构和因利益集团划分的立法机构。

California's districts are so shamelessly gerrymandered that hardly any races are competitive.

加州的选区划分有失公正到了厚颜无耻的地步，很少有竞争性的竞选。

Our time together seemed devoid of the gerrymandered schdules that now pervade my life.

那时可不像现在，如今我的生活完全被各种日程安排所操纵。

The Republicans' advantages, in the shape of more money and more gerrymandered seats, could not save them from a drubbing at the hands of an opposition with little in the way of new policies and even less likelihood of carrying any of them out.

共和党优势就是利用手中更多的资金以及通过改划选区以后更多的席位来竞选，但是这些优势仍然不能够把他们从惨败中拯救出来，他们在竞选中回天乏术，毫无任何新见地来抗衡民主党，甚至连从惨败命运中分得些许利益的可能性都没有。

The party clung to a tenuous one-vote majority in the Upper House, only because of a gerrymandered apportionment system giving more seats to its traditional strongholds in rural areas.

这个党所以能在上院维持一票的微弱多数，就是因为那套不公正的选举制度，给它在农村地区的老据点多分了一些席位。

Gerrymandered districts produce extremist politicians, among whom agreement is all but impossible since two-thirds majorities are needed to pass budgets and impose new taxes.

对于为本党利益改划了的选区内的极端政治家，要以三分之二的大多数来通过预算案并加以新税收项目，几乎是不可能的。

Californian elections, as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has frequently complained, are won or lost in the party primaries of gerrymandered districts that encourage extremism.

正如施瓦辛格州长一再抱怨的那样，州内选举的胜败完全取决于以党争为目的划分的一些选区，那里极端主义横行。

In 2005, banking on his popularity, the governor pushed an ambitious ballot initiative to impose a hard state spending cap, limit the unions' political buying power, tighten requirements for teacher tenure, and overhaul a gerrymandered state political map.

2005年，依靠着高支持率的州长施瓦辛格举行了一个雄心勃勃的投票，以对州政府开支做出硬性规定，限制工会的影响力，严格规定了教师任期，并重绘划分不公的选区地图。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。