public opinion poll
民意调查,公众意见调查,民意测验,民调
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- : a poll taken by sampling a cross section of the public in an effort to predict election results or to estimate public attitudes on issues.
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A public-opinion poll of the Sunday Pictorial soon showed 64% of its readers in favor of the marriage.
When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.
Not to be left behind, progressives in neighboring Wisconsin clamored to join the cutting edge of public health.
Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
In a bit of foreshadowing, he repeated that opinion in November.
But so-called jungle primaries are notoriously hard to predict or poll.
We resolved to do our best to merit the good opinion which we thus supposed them to entertain of us.
As such it is now presented to the public for whatever meed of praise or censure it is found to deserve.
Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.
Many of these have been seen in the Corcoran Art Gallery and in other public exhibitions.
It was close upon twelve o'clock, and the "Rooms" had been open to the public for two hours.