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(政府或經選舉組建的機構的)授權，委托
If a government or other elected body has a mandate to carry out a particular policy or task, they have the authority to carry it out as a result of winning an election or vote.
例句
The President and his supporters are almost certain to read this vote as a mandate for continued economic reform...
總統及其支持者幾乎肯定地認為這次投票是對繼續進行經濟改革的授權。
The union already has a mandate from its conference to ballot for a strike .
工會已經得到大會的授權為罷工進行投票。
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授權;委托;委任
If someone is given a mandate to carry out a particular policy or task, they are given the official authority to do it.
例句
How much longer does the independent prosecutor have a mandate to pursue this investigation?...
獨立檢察官受命調查這件事還要多長時間？
A mandate from the UN would be needed before any plans could be implemented.
執行任何計劃都需要聯合國的授權。
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任期；在任期；統治期
You can refer to the fixed length of time that a country's leader or government remains in office as their mandate .
例句
...his intention to leave politics once his mandate ends.
他關于任期一滿就離開政界的打算。
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授權;委任
When someone is mandated to carry out a particular policy or task, they are given the official authority to do it.
例句
He'd been mandated by the West African Economic Community to go in and to enforce a ceasefire...
他受西非經濟共同體的委托介入并執行停火協定。
The elections are mandated by a peace accord signed by the government last May.
選舉是在去年5月政府簽署的和平協議的授權下進行的。
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VERB
批準;頒布;強制執行
To mandate something means to make it mandatory.
例句
The proposed initiative would mandate a reduction of carbon dioxide of 40%...
倡議將強制規定把二氧化碳排放量降低40%。
Quebec mandated that all immigrants send their children to French schools.
魁北克省頒布法令，強制所有移民將子女送進法語學校就讀。