- 1議員（地方議會的成員）
A councillor is a member of a council: a group that makes local decisions about things like roads, schools, and rubbish. People usually vote for this person. It is a public, political job, not a private . In British spelling this is the normal word; American spelling may write councilor with one l. In the US you will also hear and for city government. Though actually, this is the spelling students mix with , which looks almost the same. They used to be more closely tied; today they have split. A councillor goes to meetings and votes. A sits with you and talks through a problem. If your bins are not collected, you write to your councillor. If you cannot sleep for worry, you see a .
From the word’s history
Alteration of counsellor by assimilation with council; council + -or.
原是 counsellor，後來受 council 影響改成這個拼法。
組成Alteration of counsellor, by assimilation with council. By surface analysis, council + -or.
同家族的字
- councilthe group this person sits on
- counsellorthe older word it was reshaped from; now a different job
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Councillornoun
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The title for someone elected to the role of councillor in a local council.
councillornoun
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A member of a council.
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In particular, a representative elected to a local authority, such as a city council: a city councillor.
- The comments were made at a council meeting last month, during which one councillor questioned whether changing the names would be pushing reconciliation efforts along too quickly. […] At a city council meeting on Oct. 8, Campbell River councillors discussed a letter sent by the B.C. Geographical Names Office inviting comments on the name changes.
- And it had been a close-run thing for many of the nearest - perhaps too close. Councillor Renee Spector, a senior member of Birmingham City Council planning committee, told the local press that the accident might force "a rethink" about the way it considered future applications. "There is a case for a buffer zone, but the problem is that land is at such a premium it is difficult to insist on a large distance between houses and railway lines," she said.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。