| 单词 | citizen |
| 释义 | citizen (sɪtɪzən ) Word forms: citizens 1. countable noun B2 Someone who is a citizen of a particular country is legally accepted as belonging to that country. ...American citizens. The life of ordinary citizens began to change. 2. countable noun B2 The citizens of a town or city are the people who live there. ...the citizens of Buenos Aires. [+ of] 3. See also senior citizen 4. adjective You describe someone as a citizen journalist or a citizen scientist, for example, when they are an ordinary person with no special training who does something that is usually done by professionals. Several reports are coming from citizen journalists in the area. Collocations: citizen initiative All three of these amendments made it to the ballot through a citizen initiative process, as opposed to being referred to the ballot by their state legislatures. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, a citizens initiative voted against proceeding with this extension in 2014. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 On the ballot are many mayors, other local public offices, and a wide variety of citizen initiatives. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Sections 2 and 3 of article 19 defines how citizen initiatives for constitutional amendments can be approved. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He also led several citizen initiatives, including two regarding term-limits for elected officials and the 2000 repeal of the snack tax. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Talk of glory, victory, duty were not enough to motivate a citizen soldier, he said. Times,Sunday Times His theory was also more centrally concerned with civic virtue, inspired through the role of the active participation of the citizen soldier. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The museum focuses on the role and experiences of the citizen soldier. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Much like the citizen soldiers of the world wars, they are asked to serve a higher cause and defend the place they love. Times, Sunday Times He also felt it necessary to, in his words remind each citizen soldier that patriotism and firmness will but little avail, without discipline and strict obedience. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As any concerned citizen knows, think green, think local. Times, Sunday Times In 2009, another concerned citizen raised a red flag. canada.com It was signed 'concerned citizen'. The Sun I wanted to take the position of a concerned citizen of the world and give the scientists and the experts a format in which they could speak freely and openly. The Sun He was a concerned citizen, but he was also, more particularly, a challenged philosopher. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although it has improved the modern consumer's lifestyle immeasurably, the company has not earned a reputation as a good corporate citizen. Times, Sunday Times It had signed a tax avoidance code in late 2010, and made being a good 'corporate citizen' key to last year's strategy. The Sun This might not become law, but it will be a long time before the company can feel, or be treated, like an ordinary corporate citizen. Times, Sunday Times Having clarity about their organisation's purpose and responsibilities as a good corporate citizen can only help a chief executive when deciding the right response in difficult circumstances. Times,Sunday Times It has to have a public face and it must be one that we believe will be a responsible corporate citizen. Times, Sunday Times Meanwhile, the idea that companies are run as dictatorships seems repellent to decent citizens in the 21st century. Times, Sunday Times We want to bring up decent citizens; people that get on with each other and can support each other. Times, Sunday Times How can decent citizens respect them? The Sun This poster displays a degree of contempt towards millions of decent citizens because of the colour of their skin. The Sun Our schools should be vibrant, exciting places where the young are challenged to think imaginatively, solve problems, learn to be decent citizens and understand how to start businesses. The Sun The state agreed to inform all eligible citizens on the list that their voting rights would be restored. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This plan enables eligible citizens to purchase homes by way of rent-and-buy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 For example, many states require eligible citizens to register to vote a set number of days prior to the election in order to vote. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Eligible citizens of the canton meet on a certain day in the open air to decide on laws and expenditures by the council. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These principles are reflected in all eligible citizens being equal before the law and having equal access to legislative processes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They do not want our pity, but rather that we recognise their rights as equal citizens. ST We just want to be treated as equal citizens and given the rights we deserve. Times, Sunday Times If they want to be considered as equal citizens, let them do this. Times, Sunday Times We can only do this without fear as equal citizens, united under one law, looking each other in the face. Times, Sunday Times We are starting with this fundamental principle that we are all citizens and equal citizens of one state. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The people who cause trouble through alcohol will not stop but honest hard-working citizens are made to pay - again. The Sun The neighborhood was overwhelmingly composed of hard-working citizens. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They are also regarded as respectable, hard-working citizens. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The honest citizen rang police on a mobile and six officers fished out the 10 and 20 notes. The Sun There have been many protestations from you that you are going to become an honest citizen and behave yourself. Times, Sunday Times As a result, work clothes were introduced, perhaps because of the concept of honest labor helping to turn an inmate into an honest citizen. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Experts also warn that the uninsured, especially those who flout the law by driving without cover, pose a big risk for 'honest citizens'. Times, Sunday Times Worst of all, prevention culture engenders anxiety and fear among responsible and honest citizens. Times, Sunday Times If a silly law wholly disadvantages an innocent citizen going about his harmless business, what would be the point of his obeying it? The Star (South Africa) While police chiefs scream about cuts and austerity, tens of millions of pounds have been squandered on bungled persecutions and compensation pay-outs to innocent citizens. The Sun But make no mistake, we must get into their faces and into their pockets, and let these people know they cannot terrorise innocent citizens. Times, Sunday Times As ever, this shocking act of hate against innocent citizens, one of them aged just three, defies understanding. The Sun They are literally cutting a swathe through the lives of innocent citizens. The Sun These are honest, law-abiding citizens with no airs or graces. The Sun (2010) But what is clear is that most law-abiding citizens would naturally defend themselves and their family in any life or death situation. The Sun (2012) And why have MPs not condemned this threat of violence against law-abiding citizens? The Sun (2013) Freedom has had its hazards for him, and capitalist enterprise its surfeit, but he was ever the loyal citizen. Times, Sunday Times Yet even these loyal citizens could not be trusted. Times, Sunday Times They are capable of turning even the most loyal citizens against their government. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We cherish this noble heritage and are committed to the exercise of our rights and responsibilities as proud and loyal citizens of this nation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Her loyal citizens then sacrifice pieces of themselves, sticking them to her body. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He not only moulded them into disciplined athletes but model citizens as well. The Sun (2010) Her denials, coupled with her past record as a model citizen, had an impact, and the police decided to let her go. Christianity Today (2000) Tonight's programme features two brothers, neither of whom are model citizens. Times, Sunday Times (2015) It was not acceptable for an ordinary citizen to interfere with a person's liberty by confining him or her in a doorway. Times, Sunday Times There may be complex legal reasons for this, but to the ordinary citizen this evasiveness appears to be bizarre. Times, Sunday Times But the elimination of the rule of the ordinary citizen in deciding the guilt or otherwise of fellow citizens may be a price too high. Times,Sunday Times I don't mean the ordinary citizen has systematically deconstructed official claims and arguments and found them wanting. Times,Sunday Times This injunction puts any ordinary citizen tweeting facts at risk of prosecution; an extraordinary imposition in a democracy. Times, Sunday Times Middle-class incomes were squeezed but working-class incomes rose, as did the status of manual workers, exalted by wartime propaganda as patriotic citizens and saviours of the nation. The Times Literary Supplement We call the attention of the patriotic citizens of our country to its record of efficiency, economy and constructive legislation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These pamphlets also focused on a new movement of social efficacy, which strongly favored students growing as people and becoming involved, patriotic citizens. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The front of the base carries a bronze plaque depicting a scene of patriotic citizens sacrificing their property for the benefit of the motherland. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 One partial solution was to rely on volunteer support from militiamen, and donations from patriotic citizens. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If he wants to be a private citizen he should renounce his title and get on with it. The Sun The announcement coincided with my own transition from parliamentarian to private citizen. ST Gold would make the loan as a private citizen to circumvent rules preventing a club lending money or guaranteeing the debts of a rival. Times, Sunday Times He could worship, pray, and speak to as many people as he liked in his capacity as a private citizen. Times, Sunday Times By living as a private citizen, getting a job and earning his own fortune. The Sun He built a store and became a prominent citizen. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He eventually increased the size of his farm to and became a prominent citizen. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He became a prominent citizen of the settlement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was the first merchant of the village and its most prominent citizen. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This allowed him to keep his personal appearance inline with what was expected of prominent citizens. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 That's exactly what it's there for: to protect the citizen against governments trying to wield overweening power. Times, Sunday Times We need one law to harmonise entry powers and protect the citizen by making accountability and transparency paramount. Times, Sunday Times Accordingly, civil rights advocates have little patience for the excuse that these measures ultimately protect the citizen. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These funds have been designed to protect their citizens in a future when their natural resources have gone. Times, Sunday Times They are trained to serve and protect the citizens of their community in many of the same ways their human counterparts do. Christianity Today The Bible teaches us to be responsible citizens. Christianity Today (2000) I'm one of those irresponsible people whom governments and responsible citizens cannot understand. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Most people can't bear to think about death - which is probably why so many otherwise responsible citizens fail to make wills. Times, Sunday Times (2008) This, as much as the theoretical rights of citizens to keep their data private, ought to inform international and national courts and public debate. Times, Sunday Times We do these things because we believe not simply in the rights of nations, but the rights of citizens. Times, Sunday Times A second inquiry led by a panel of experts will look at the role of a free press and the need for regulation to protect the rights of citizens. Times, Sunday Times It represents the rights of citizens and politicians, and police meddle at their peril. Times, Sunday Times But that must not become an excuse for curtailing the rights of citizens to hold them to account. Times, Sunday Times He's a solid citizen, of wife and one son, and strong family ties with three sisters and a brother. Times, Sunday Times Accurate, quick enough, superb bowler to left-handers and a solid citizen. Times, Sunday Times Managers are solid citizens who keep the show on the road. Times, Sunday Times By the last reel, the sheer persistence of his goodness had transformed even the worst of them into solid citizens. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 With their support, he develops into an upstanding citizen and star sportsman. The Sun He may be a charismatic, upstanding citizen. Christianity Today He was noted as a worthy and upstanding citizen. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was an honest and upstanding citizen in a time when not many ballplayers could say the same. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The closer he gets to the truth, the further his life spins out of control especially when he learns his upstanding citizen brother may be involved. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Will vulnerable citizens be expected to risk infection to stand in line for hours at the polls? Times,Sunday Times The energy industry makes a substantial contribution to support vulnerable citizens, and will do more. Times, Sunday Times I hope not, because that looks as if we are taking sides rather than simply protecting vulnerable citizens. Times, Sunday Times Agood society should surely be judged by how it treats its most vulnerable citizens. Times, Sunday Times When we look back at this pandemic, it will be our collective callousness towards our most vulnerable citizens that most appals us. The Sun This property was generally donated and maintained by a wealthy citizen. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Persons, a wealthy citizen who was an oilman and contributed financially to the district and town. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Critics say the tax will force wealthy citizens to move abroad. The Sun Wealthy citizens often hosted lavish banquets. Christianity Today The cavalry was recruited from wealthier citizens and hired mercenaries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 市民, 公民 Japanese: 市民, 国民 |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含147115条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。