1. 1監票員

    A scrutineer is an official whose job is to watch votes being counted and check that the count is fair — that papers are not added, lost, or quietly “found,” and that the numbers match.

    a scrutineer一位scrutineer is是 an official whose job is一位工作是 to watch votes being counted監看選票計算、 and check that the count is fair並檢查計票是否公正 -- that papers are not added選票沒有被灌票、 lost遺失、 or quietly "found"或悄悄「被找到」、 and that the numbers match而且數字對得上的官員。

    You meet the word in elections, and sometimes in sport or racing when someone checks that a result or a machine still follows the rules. It sounds formal and a little British; American news often says observer or talks about a canvassing board, though the work is in the same family of ideas.

    in elections在選舉裡、 and sometimes in sport or racing有時候在運動或賽車裡 when someone checks that當有人檢查 a result or a machine一個結果或一台機器 still follows the rules是否還照規則來時 you meet the word你會遇到這個字。 it它 sounds formal and a little British聽起來正式又有點英式; American news美式新聞 often says observer常說observer或 talks about提到 a canvassing board一個計票委員會、 though不過 the work這份工作 is in the same family of ideas性質是同一類的。

    It is not the person running for office, and it is not a random volunteer with a flag outside the school. It is the checker at the count.

    it它 is not不是 the person running for office參選公職的人、 and it also is not也不是 a random volunteer with a flag隨便一個拿旗子的志工 outside the school在校外站崗。 it它 is就是 the checker at the count計票現場的檢查員。

core核心畫面

組成scrutiny (a careful look-through) + -eer (a person whose work is that thing).

同家族的字

  • scrutinythe noun this is built from: careful, thorough checking
  • scrutinizethe verb: to look at something that carefully

原始詞典資料4 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。

scrutineernoun/ˈskɹuː.tɪn.ɪə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    hobbieslifestylemotor-racingA person who scrutinises; a person responsible for scrutineering.

    • Those people coined the term “open source,” to stress the instrumental benefits of allowing others to scrutinize code: these scrutineers could root out defects and prevent the nefarious subversion of code to spy on or steal data from its users (there’s a saying for this, too: “with enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”).
  • 2

    A poll-watcher.

  • 3

    A person who observes any process which requires rigorous oversight.

scrutineerverb/ˈskɹuː.tɪn.ɪə(ɹ)/

  • 1

    To scrutinise; to thoroughly check that an election is being run fairly, or that a vehicle meets the rules of a competition, etc.

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