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小词详解 | veto
Some can veto the mates their families suggest; others choose their own, subject to a parental veto.
一些人可以否决家人提议的婚配对象,也有的人自己选择对象,但父母保留否决权。
——《经济学人》The W.T.O. has historically operated through consensus, with any single country able to veto proposed changes.
历史上,世贸组织一直是在一致同意基础上运作的,任何一个国家都有权否决拟议中的人事变动。
——《纽约时报》
[动词] 利用职权阻止某事的发生或完成
My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.
我的手似乎被一个无声的否决拦住了。
reject: to refuse to accept or consider sth dismiss: to decide that sb/sth is not important and not worth thinking or talking about overrule: to change a decision or reject an idea from a position of greater power