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QUANT-PLURAL
多数状态；诸多；众多
If there is a plurality of things, a number of them exist.
例句
Federalism implies a plurality of political authorities, each with its own powers.
联邦制意味着存在众多各自都拥有权力的政治管理机构。
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QUANT-PLURAL
（超过其他任何一方的）多数
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.
例句
The Conservative party retained a plurality of the votes...
保守党保住了选票的多数优势。
35% of the population, a plurality, believed that the economic reforms would result in only insignificant change.
有35%的多数民众认为，经济改革不会带来实质性的变革。
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N-COUNT
（指选举中获胜者得到的不及其他所有候选人得票总和的）相对多数（票）
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.
例句
He only got a plurality on November 3rd, just 49 percent.
他在11月3号的选举中仅获得了49%的相对多数票。
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N-COUNT
（指选举中获得最多票数的候选人与得票数第二的候选人之间的）票数差额
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.
例句
Franklin had won with a plurality in electoral votes of 449 to 82.
富兰克林在选举团投票中以449票比82票的差额胜出。