Nominate

(verb.) propose as a candidate for some honor.

(verb.) put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position; 'The President nominated her as head of the Civil Rights Commission'.

手打:马吉

• The National Whig Convention, to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President, met at Baltimore on May 1, 1844. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I did at one time mean, said Miss Flite, echoing the sigh, to nominate, constitute, and appoint poor Gridley. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• You must nominate me, Lionel; Ryland, for shame, cannot shew himself; but you, my friend, will do me this service? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• We will nominate Adrian, and do our best to bestow on him the power to which he is entitled by his birth, and which he merits through his virtues. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He wished, too, that the officers should be appointed altogether by himself, and not be nominated by the people, as the bill had proposed. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• But we were nominated at the same time for the United States service, and both our commissions bore date May 17th, 1861. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The day before the convention met Morse had arranged with Vail that certain signals should mean that certain candidates had been nominated. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Terry had been nominated for major-general, but had not been confirmed. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It is safe with me, said the Outlaw, so be that this thy scroll produce the sum therein nominated and set down. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• General Taylor was nominated in 1848, and was elected. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Nominated, constituted, and appointed him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Four years later General Scott received the nomination but was badly beaten, and the party nominating him died with his defeat. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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