Your Voice Your Vote 大选之夜
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N a vote taken in a legislative body by calling for the ayes and the noes and estimating which faction is more numerous from the volume of the noise 口头表决(立法机构中由参加表决者呼喊“同意”或“不同意”，根据呼声音量强弱来决定问题)
Last week, Reid whistled through the Senate, by voice vote, a bill to put us on that escalator.
上周，瑞德在参议院通过口头投票迅速通过了一项置我们于那台直升电梯的议案。
Upon the demand of any shareholder made before the voting begins, the election of directors shall be by ballot rather than by voice vote.
如有股东在投票前提出要求，董事选举得用投票而不是用口头赞成进行。
Parents vote for the boards that oversee the school system, and more educated parents also make their voice heard inside their child's school.
父母会参与投票，选举对学校体制进行监督的校董会；文化程度较高的父母还会让孩子所在的学校听到自己的声音。
Committee chairman Democrat Howard Berman supported an amendment on the subject Burton proposed, with some changes, which was approved by voice vote.
VOA: standard.2009.05.20
I believe the choice should be clear." Though foreign affairs committee approval, which occurred by voice vote, is a significant step toward a vote by the full House of Representatives, the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act remains subject to consideration by two other House panels.
VOA: standard.2009.10.28
"If senators refuse to debate about a profound crisis affecting every single citizen, the nation must ask 'What do you fear?' ,'And whose voice do you speak and whose interest do you vote?" Republican Mitch McConnell of Kentucky disagreed, saying the bill will make soaring health care costs go even higher, and place a greater burden on average Americans.
VOA: standard.2009.11.23
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