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roll call

点名,点名册,点名发言,点名表决

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the calling of a list of names, as of soldiers or students, for checking attendance.
    • : a military signal for this, as one given by a drum.
    • : a voting process, especially in the U.S. Congress, in which legislators are called on by name and allowed either to cast their vote or to abstain.

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Examples

  • Above ground, roll call is being taken for the children and their names are written on an old Jack in the Box bag.

  • The report indicated that lessons should be shared with officers in roll calls, bulletins and in-service training.

  • The list reads like a roll call of popular American dishes, from roast chicken to grilled steak.

  • Additionally, the sheriff’s office has been conducting remote roll calls every day instead of requiring deputies to come in, he said.

  • There was not a formal roll call, but only eight members of the 74-person Wyoming GOP central committee opposed the censure of Cheney.

  • Note: UNICOR uses its inmates for everything from call center operators to human demolishers of old computers.

  • This is the Mexico that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and most major U.S. corporations, are eager to call amigo.

  • Al Qaeda has never managed to carve out a large chunk of real estate to call its own—in Afghanistan it was a guest of the Taliban.

  • Who else would see a former spouse accused of underage sex and call him ‘the greatest man there is’?

  • Almost everyone I spoke to said they have used JSwipe because they are specifically not just looking for a booty call.

  • Everything is topsy-turvy in Europe according to our moral ideas, and they don't have what we call "men" over here.

  • It was like his beautiful courtesy to call me in and introduce me to Blow instead of letting me go away.

  • After an hour, however, he reached this decision: He would not go to or call up Mrs. Merley.

  • "I call you," the policeman said, and stripping the saddle and bridle from his sweaty horse, turned him loose to graze.

  • Each did his duty, or was adjured to do it, in the "state of life to which it had pleased God to call him."