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2008.11.06(Review of 2003.09.09 edition)
Who says politics is boring? Well, whoever they are, they've surely never read WordMaster!
(ELECTION) CAMPAIGN (選挙)運動
- An election campaign (noun) is a series of activities before an election, done in order to get votes.
To campaign (verb) is to participate in activities of this kind. - election campaign は、票を得るために選挙前に行われる活動、つまり、選挙運動のことです。
動詞の campaign は、このような選挙運動を行う、という意味です。
- The election campaign is finally over and the results are in.
- It can take a lot of money to run a political campaign.
- My sister got a job working in a campaign van for a man who wants to be on the City Council.
- (during a political election in Japan)
People are campaigning all around Tokyo, and there always seems to be one or two of them giving speeches outside Shibuya Station.
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