Picture a hand going up, or a mark going onto a ballot: one option is picked out of several and that pick is binding. Voting is the main home of the word; the same act of deliberately picking also shows up when a person chooses a course of action, and in the label worn by someone already chosen but not yet in post.
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原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
electnoun/ɪˈlɛkt/
- 1
One chosen or set apart.
- 2
lifestylereligiontheologyIn Calvinist theology, one foreordained to Heaven. In other Christian theologies, someone chosen by God for salvation.
- Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth.
- Shall not God avenge his won elect?
electverb/ɪˈlɛkt/
- 1
To choose or make a decision (to do something).
- 2
(Of a group) to officially select one or more candidates in an election to hold office.
- President Obama in a speech this past week said that we should solve the nation's bee problem. Oh, God, we elected a guy who sympathizes with bees?
electadj/ɪˈlɛkt/
- 1
Who has been elected in a specified post, but has not yet entered office.
- He is the President elect.
- She began almost to feel a dislike of Edward; and it ended, as every feeling must end with her, by carrying back her thoughts to Willoughby, whose manners formed a contrast sufficiently striking to those of his brother elect.
- 2
Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more.
- colours quaint elect
- the elect angels
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