Kevin: But why did you put the big red polka dots all over the room?

Make sure they can play waltzes and polkas, I told him.

一定要保证他们能够演奏华尔兹和波尔卡舞曲.

to carry out/conduct a poll

进行民意测验

The polls will close in an hour.

投票站将于一小时后关闭。

Audiences were going to be polled on which of three pieces of contemporary music they liked best...

将对观众进行民意调查，询问他们在3部当代音乐作品中最喜欢哪一部。

18% of the women we polled said their husbands had a drinking problem.

我们调查的妇女当中有18%的人说丈夫有酗酒问题。

More than 18,000 people were polled...

超过1.8万人接受了民意测验。

A recent poll suggests some surprising changes in public opinion.

最近的调查反映民意有了出人意表的变化。

It was a disappointing result for the Greens who polled three percent...

这个结果让绿党感到失望，他们只获得了3%的选票。

Ten million voters went to the polls.

1,000万选民参加了投票。

They gained 20% of the poll.

他们得到了20%的选票。

In 1945, Winston Churchill was defeated at the polls...

温斯顿·丘吉尔在1945年的大选中被击败。

Voters are due to go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president...

选民应于星期日前往投票站选举新总统。

The final result of the poll will be known tomorrow.

投票结果将于明天公布。

Polls close (= voting ends) at 9 p.m.

投票于晚上9点结束。

This is a variation of the methods shown in fig . 2.20.

这是图2.20所示的方法的一个变种.

The result of the poll won't be known until around midnight.

选举结果要到午夜前后才公布。

The newspaper took a poll of 300 people to see what the man in the street thinks.

那家报纸对三百人进行了民意测验,看普通老百姓有些什么想法.

Thursday is traditionally the day when Britain goes to the polls (= when elections are held) .

英国传统的投票选举日是星期四。

Over 50% of those polled were against the proposed military action.

民调中有超过50%的人反对拟议的军事行动。

Labour polled just 4% of the vote.

工党只得到4%的选票。