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Because the President is not elected directly by the people, it is possible for a candidate to receive a plurality of the popular vote and yet lose the election.
鉴于总统选举不是直接由选民票数决定，因此有可能出现一位候选人赢得多数选民的选票而未能当选的情况。
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Ultimately the country’s economic failings express the preferences of a plurality of Italians.
意大利经济的失败从本质上表现出多数意大利人的偏好。
In addition, for the first time a plurality preferred Congress did nothing on health care rather than pass the overhaul plan that would be Mr. Obama's signature achievement so far.
此外，这是首次有多数受访者认为国会在医疗改革方面什么都没干，只是通过了一份整改计划，而这可能就是奥巴马迄今最突出的政绩了。

There is a plurality of solutions that conform to the boundary conditions, which is that the system must be bound.
这有许多解决方式,来遵守这个有界条件，那个系统必须是有界的。
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The second thing is, just as in the case of the violin string, the wave equation, as posed by Schrodinger, has a plurality of solutions.
第二，就那个小提琴弦而言，波动方程，被薛定谔所提出的，有许多解法。
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Well assume that we're in a plurality election here, so the winner is the person who gets a plurality.
假设我们在进行一个多数制选举,所以当选者是获得票数最多的人
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With its nationwide dominance, Golkar could win a plurality in 30-40% of the 300-plus districts.
ECONOMIST: On democracy’s front line

If there is a plurality of things, a number of them exist.
If a candidate, political party, or idea has the support of a plurality of people, they have more support than any other candidate, party, or idea.
A plurality in an election is the number of votes that the winner gets, when this is less than the total number of votes for all the other candidates.
A plurality in an election is the difference in the number of votes between the candidate who gets the most votes and the candidate who comes second.

多元
With the consideration of the plurality of writers and readers,and the complexity of language,the idea of objective correlative is in fact never as useful as ever.
在对作家、读者多元复杂性的认识中，在对语言问题的自觉中，“客观对应物”说实际上已在不自觉中被消解。
复数
多义性
In this analysis, with a combination of the structuralist approach with the post-structuralist one, both being suggested and used by Roland Barthes, the relationships of signs and the main codes are interpreted and, the plurality of the text is discussed.
在以上分析中,将罗兰·巴特的结构主义与后结构主义分析方法相结合,通过分析符号之间的关系,对该文本的主要代码进行了解读,阐释了该文本的多义性。
语言学
复数；复数形式

多元
The ideas emphasize on the students’ development, the curriculum improvement, and the plurality.
从理论与实践的互动出发，我们提出了发展性课程评价中应确立的三种基本理念：以学生发展为本的理念、促使课程不断改进和提高的理念、面向多元的理念。