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An elector is someone who has the right to vote in an election — a voter, in more everyday words. Elector is a little more formal; you meet it in news, law, and textbooks, where the exact right to vote matters.
An elector electoris someone who has the right to vote in an election是指有權利在選舉中投票的人——a voter用更日常的話說就是voter（選民）。Elector electoris a little more formal這個字比較正式一點；you你meet it in news, law, and textbooks會在新聞、法律，和教科書裡遇到它，where the exact right to vote matters在那些場合，精確的投票權利很重要。
The basic idea is still “a person who may vote.” Though actually, in the United States the same word also names a special kind of voter in a presidential election (a member of the Electoral College). That is a narrower, official use of the same idea, not a different spelling.
The basic idea基本概念is still "a person who may vote"仍然是「有權投票的人」。Though actually不過其實，in the United States在美國the same word同一個字also names a special kind of voter in a presidential election也用來指總統選舉裡一種特別的選民，a member of the Electoral College也就是選舉人團的成員。That那is a narrower, official use of the same idea是同一個概念下比較狹義、正式的用法，not a different spelling而不是拼法不同的另一個字。
If you only need a simple word in class, voter is the one people say. An elector is the person; the election is the event; to elect is the verb.
If you如果你only need a simple word in class在課堂上只需要一個簡單的字，voter voteris the one people say大家會說的就是voter。An elector electoris the person是指這個人；the election electionis the event是指這場選舉這件事；to elect to electis the verb則是動詞「選出」。
組成From Middle English electour, from Latin ēlēctor (chooser, voter), from ēligere (to elect) + -tor (person who does it). In English: elect + -or. Ēligere is ē- (out) + legō (to choose, pick out).
同家族的字
- electthe verb: to choose by voting
- electionthe vote this person takes part in
- electoralthe adjective: about electors or elections
- electorateall the people who may vote
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
Electornoun
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historicalA German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire; a prince-elector.
- In one of the conflicts, the [Holy Roman] emperor himſelf was put to flight, and very near being made priſoner by the elector of Saxony.
- [T]he seven Imperial electors who chose the [Holy Roman] emperor controlled him by the pledges exacted from him as the price of his election. These electors were the king of Bohemia, the rulers of Saxony, Brandenburg, and the Palatinate, and the "spiritual electors"—the archbishops of Cologne, Trier, and Mainz.
electornoun/ɪˈlɛktə/
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governmentpoliticsA person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
- Where the qualifications of the electors are the ſame, whether they have to chooſe a ſmall or a large number their votes will fall upon thoſe in whom they have the moſt confidence; whether thoſe happen to be men of large fortunes or of moderate property or of no property at all.
- The conſtitution of France ſays, that every man who pays a tax of ſixty ſous per annum, (2s. and 6d. Engliſh), is an elector.— [...] Can any thing be more limited, and at the ſame time more capricious, than what the qualifications of electors are in England? [...] Capricious—becauſe the loweſt character that can be ſuppoſed to exiſt, and who has not ſo much as the viſible means of an honeſt livelihood, is an elector in ſome places; while, in other places, the man who pays very large taxes, and with a fair known character, and the farmer who rents to the amount of three or four hundred pounds a year, and with a property on that farm to three or four times that amount, is not admitted to be an elector.
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governmentpoliticsA person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
- I Think this Letter, which was ſent to me by my Electors, worth printing, becauſe as it has convinced me, it may convince others.
- The constitutional right of the Electors to exact pledges, from Candidates who are soliciting the honour of representing the nation in Parliament, has been frequently agitated, and as loudly contended for as manfully resisted, at different periods of effervescence; [...]
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governmentpoliticsA person eligible to vote in an election; a member of an electorate, a voter.
- The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice-President chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows / Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
- The electors were originally designed to be the agents of a State, armed with plenary authority to cast its vote for President and Vice-President in such manner as the agents themselves or a majority of them might will, all danger of abuse of the trust being intended to be averted by the selection of worthy and fitting instruments for the execution of this high office. [...] Electors are now the mere instruments of party, "party puppets," as Justice [Joseph Philo] Bradley termed them, to perform a function which an automaton without intelligence or volition might as fittingly discharge.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。