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abstention: 弃权

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11月22日,德国基民盟领袖安吉拉·默克尔正式宣誓就任二战后德国第八任总理,她也是德国历史上首名女总理。外电报道如下:

Lawmakers voted 397 to 202 with 12 abstentions to make Merkel Germany's eighth leader since World War II, succeeding Gerhard Schroeder, whose seven-year government of Social Democrats and Greens was ousted by voters Sept. 18.

报道中的abstention指的是“弃权”,abstention from voting意思就是“弃权不投票”。Abstention有“节制、克制”的意思,比如:abstention from alcoholic liquors(戒酒);abstention from exerting pressures(不施加压力)。

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