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A vote in which all the people of a country or area say yes or no to one big decision — joining another country, changing the constitution, staying or leaving. Newspapers often treat it as another word for referendum, and in many modern cases they overlap. Though actually the word can carry an older smell: a ruler putting a question to the crowd and wanting a loud yes. In careful talk, a referendum is the usual civic word; plebiscite sounds more formal, more historical, and sometimes more . It is not a poll, and it is not an election of a person. It is one question, put to everyone.
公民投票；公投
原始詞典資料3 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。
plebiscitenoun/ˈplɛbɪsaɪt/
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governmentlawpoliticsA direct popular vote on an issue of public importance, such as an amendment to the constitution, a change in the sovereignty of the nation, or some government policy.
- A political result, we may also say aim, of the frumentarian plebiscite of Gaius was to disattach the city populace from its conservative moorings and to enlist it in the service of reform.
- Then something changed, and Mr. Mitterrand said he thought it would be a good idea if the Constitution allowed plebiscites, on the recommendation of the President, on issues involving personal freedoms.
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An expression of the public's views on an issue, whether legally binding or not.
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historicalSynonym of plebiscitum (“a law enacted by the common people, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate”).
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。