vt.& vi. (在政治方面)游说;调查意见;为讨论而提出(意见等);详细检查 n. 检票员,游说者;讨论;细查;劝诱 vt. 揽(货) 复数: canvasses 第三人称单数: canvasses 过去式: canvassed 过去分词: canvassed 现在分词: canvassing
中文词源
canvass 游说,拉选票
来自canvas, 原指用帆布筛选种子等,后指针对特定人进行游说,拉选票。
canvass 用法和例句
Instead of walking the tree-lined streets near our home , my wife and I were instructed to canvass a housing project .
我老婆和我不是在我家附近的林荫大道上拉票,而是去进行挨家挨户的攻势。
I also reviewed the operations in two other towns that were less well organized and urged the state headquarters to at least make sure they had complete voter lists and the capacity to do the phone canvass .
When it took weeks for the campaign to vet volunteers in texas who wanted to canvass in nearby states , brady proposed a streamlined online interview format that the campaign adopted , whittling the approval process to a few days .
Candidates are not allowed to canvass on election day .
候选人于选举当日不可拉票。
Much of the money he raised online was spent on television advertisements , and activists recruited via websites were deployed to canvass voters face-to-face .