canvass

UK:  ['kænvəs]

US:  [ˈkænvəs]

第三人称单数：canvasses  现在分词：canvassing  过去式：canvassed  

n.

1.游说;讨论;民意调查

v.

1.游说;劝说;兜售

2.(大范围的)调查

3.深入讨论

1 . The company directed me to travel into the wilderness by boat to canvass the resident natives.
公司指示我坐船进入一片荒野，去游说当地居民。

2 . Canal engineer Canvass White solved one of the construction obstacles when he discovered how to create a cement that hardened underwater.
运河工程师CanvassWhite解决了一个施工难题，他发明了水下硬化水泥。

3 . The party decided to canvass for support of its new policy.
党决定争取民众对它的新政策的支持。

4 . I am anxious, have no time miss again I and his affair, move forward and then want to jump him to canvass him to save a person on board.
我心急，无暇再去想我跟他的事情，迈步就想跳到他船上去游说他去救人。

5 . No candidate shall circularise or canvass in writing other Members in respect of any such election.
任何候选人不应以书面形式，就选举之事向其他会员宣传或游说。