gerrymander

gerrymander

1. The ruling Zanu-PF regime has just passed a new law allowing phone calls and emails to be monitored. Another law will gerrymander parliament in its favor.

PF政权刚通过一项新法律，监控电话和电子邮件。另一项法律会让这个政权更容易控制国会。

2. A gerrymander sounds like a strange political beast, which in fact it is, considered from a historical perspective.

一个不公正划分选区听起来象是一个奇怪的政治怪兽，事实上它是来自历史上的观点。

3. WORD OF THE DAY: gerrymander: to divide into election districts so as to give one political party an advantage.We would like to think that gerrymandering is a thing of the past.

为一党私利而重新将(某地)划分选区----我们会觉得为一党私利而重新将(某地)划分选区的事件，已经是过去的事了!

4. One such scheme involves an improved control method designed to automatically quarantine trouble spots and gerrymander the remaining grid into islands of balanced load and generation.

可行方案之一是改良控制方法，自动将出错的部份隔离起来，并将剩馀的电力输送网重新划分成数个供需平衡的独立区域。

5. The reason why so many investors are obsessed with the government is that officials cannot stop themselves from intervening in the market to try and gerrymander the level of the stock index.

如此多投资者执迷于政府的原因是，政府官员忍不住就会干预股市，试图操纵股指点位。