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N-COUNT
民意測驗；民意調查
A poll is a survey in which people are asked their opinions about something, usually in order to find out how popular something is or what people intend to do in the future.
例句
Polls show that the European treaty has gained support in Denmark...
民意測驗顯示該歐盟條約已在丹麥獲得支持。
We are doing a weekly poll on the president, and clearly his popularity has declined...
我們每周就總統進行一次民意調查，很顯然他的支持率下降了。
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VERB
對…進行民意測驗（或調查）
If you are polled on something, you are asked what you think about it as part of a survey.
例句
More than 18,000 people were polled...
超過1.8萬人接受了民意測驗。
Audiences were going to be polled on which of three pieces of contemporary music they liked best...
將對觀眾進行民意調查，詢問他們在3部當代音樂作品中最喜歡哪一部。
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N-PLURAL
政治選舉；大選；投票地點
The polls means an election for a country's government, or the place where people go to vote in an election.
例句
In 1945, Winston Churchill was defeated at the polls...
溫斯頓·丘吉爾在1945年的大選中被擊敗。
Voters are due to go to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president...
選民應于星期日前往投票站選舉新總統。
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VERB
獲得（…票數）
If a political party or a candidate polls a particular number or percentage of votes, they get that number or percentage of votes in an election.
例句
It was a disappointing result for the Greens who polled three percent...
這個結果讓綠黨感到失望，他們只獲得了3%的選票。
The result showed he had polled enough votes to force a second ballot.
結果顯示，他已獲得了足夠把對手拖入二次投票的票數。