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单词 vox populi
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Definition of vox populi in English:

vox populi

nounvɒks ˈpɒpjʊlʌɪvɒks ˈpɒpjʊliː
mass noun
  • The opinions or beliefs of the majority.

    her poems weren't exactly the vox populi
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It controlled its people through vox populi, popular opinion.
    • Meanwhile, the BBC offers this vox populi from Iraqi women.
    • Untener believed that vox populi, vox Dei: the people's voice is the voice of God.
    • Last week the Herald quoted an American voter in a vox populi.
    • I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it until… until I stop saying it: Blogs have done more to amplify vox populi than can ever be accounted for.
    • Yeomans plans to wait and hear the vox populi only after the report is written, an approach Rotrand views as ironic.
    • Our Richard Quest has journeyed to just that place to gauge the vox populi in the hotly contested state of Florida.
    • Weissberg argues that most polls are systematically biased toward manufacturing a vox populi that clamors for an ever-growing welfare state.
    • For Marx: ‘High society had avoided the field of battle and by its absence it had acknowledged the sovereignty of the vox populi.’
    • These latest victories of vox populi remind us that, by standing up and voicing our dissent, we can still make a difference - at least for a week.
    • Newspapers seek to serve the people who read them: the opinion columns are not the vox populi.
    • Indeed, New York seems to be listening to the vox populi more than professional critics.
    • Thus, this book clearly shows that in countries where the vox populi is strong, governments take this into account in critical decisions, despotic or democratic.
    • This both pre-empts the accusation of racism, and dismisses it by claiming to be merely vox populi.
    • The quality of a leader is a person who is not awed by vox populi.
    • In the case of alternative country music the vox populi is more subtle, but no less potent.
    • However, it will be a patronage not conferred by canonisation and not conferred by vox populi.
    • Suddenly the voices of Sir Bob Geldof and his fellow protesters seem rather out of tune with the vox populi.
    • Societies are organized, like the Roman Empire, on a system which has many of the elements of vox populi.
    • In the lands of booming economies, low inflation and unemployment, the vox populi was screaming in anger.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin, literally 'the people's voice'.

 
 

Definition of vox populi in US English:

vox populi

noun
  • The opinions or beliefs of the majority.

    her poems weren't exactly the vox populi
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Last week the Herald quoted an American voter in a vox populi.
    • In the lands of booming economies, low inflation and unemployment, the vox populi was screaming in anger.
    • Weissberg argues that most polls are systematically biased toward manufacturing a vox populi that clamors for an ever-growing welfare state.
    • Yeomans plans to wait and hear the vox populi only after the report is written, an approach Rotrand views as ironic.
    • For Marx: ‘High society had avoided the field of battle and by its absence it had acknowledged the sovereignty of the vox populi.’
    • In the case of alternative country music the vox populi is more subtle, but no less potent.
    • I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it until… until I stop saying it: Blogs have done more to amplify vox populi than can ever be accounted for.
    • Indeed, New York seems to be listening to the vox populi more than professional critics.
    • The quality of a leader is a person who is not awed by vox populi.
    • Untener believed that vox populi, vox Dei: the people's voice is the voice of God.
    • Societies are organized, like the Roman Empire, on a system which has many of the elements of vox populi.
    • Meanwhile, the BBC offers this vox populi from Iraqi women.
    • This both pre-empts the accusation of racism, and dismisses it by claiming to be merely vox populi.
    • However, it will be a patronage not conferred by canonisation and not conferred by vox populi.
    • Newspapers seek to serve the people who read them: the opinion columns are not the vox populi.
    • It controlled its people through vox populi, popular opinion.
    • Thus, this book clearly shows that in countries where the vox populi is strong, governments take this into account in critical decisions, despotic or democratic.
    • Suddenly the voices of Sir Bob Geldof and his fellow protesters seem rather out of tune with the vox populi.
    • Our Richard Quest has journeyed to just that place to gauge the vox populi in the hotly contested state of Florida.
    • These latest victories of vox populi remind us that, by standing up and voicing our dissent, we can still make a difference - at least for a week.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from Latin, literally ‘the people's voice’.

 
 
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