• adj. 選出的；當(dāng)選的；卓越的
• n. 被選的人；特殊階層；上帝的選民
• vt. 選舉；選擇；推選
• vi. 作出選擇；進(jìn)行選舉

e-, 向外。-lect, 收集，選出，詞源同collect,elite.

elect

elect: [15] To elect somebody is literally to ‘choose them out’ of a range of possibilities. The word comes from ēlectus, the past participle of Latin ēligere ‘pick out, select’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and legere ‘gather, choose’ (source also of English collect, neglect, and select and, from its secondary meaning ‘read’, legible and lecture).

The notion of ‘choosing by ballot’ is the oldest of the verb’s senses in English. A person who may be ‘elected’ or ‘chosen’ is eligible [15] (an acquisition via French from the late Latin derivative ēligibilis). And someone who has been ‘picked out’ from the crowd is a member of the élite [18] (a borrowing of the feminine form of the past participle of French élire ‘elect’).

Also closely related is elegant.
=> collect, elegant, eligible, elite, lecture, legible, neglect, select

elect (v.)

early 15c., "to choose for an office, position, or duty," from Latin electus, past participle of eligere "to pick out, choose" (see election). Related: Elected; electing.

elect (adj.)

early 15c., of action, "voluntary;" of persons, "taken in preference to others," especially "chosen by God for some special purpose," from Latin electus, past participle of eligere "to pick out, choose" (see election). The noun meaning "those chosen by God" is from early 15c.

1. Councils should be answerable to the people who elect them.

市政會(huì)成員應(yīng)對(duì)推選他們的人負(fù)責(zé)。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Concentrators in geological sciences elect either geology or geography.

主修地質(zhì)學(xué)的學(xué)生要選修地質(zhì)學(xué)或地理課程.

來自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》

3. ELECT deals in Gas burner, Heating systems as well as in Heat generation plants.

在不同的、量的產(chǎn)品供應(yīng)中,elect是一家成熟的制造商和服務(wù)商,例如氣體燃燒器, 供暖系統(tǒng),供熱設(shè)備.

來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)

4. Austrian voters went to the polls this weekend to elect a successor to the President.

奧地利選民這周末去投票中心選舉下屆總統(tǒng)。

來自柯林斯例句

5. The right to elect chieftains and to depose them.

選舉和撤換酋長(zhǎng)的權(quán)利.

來自英漢非文學(xué) - 家庭、私有制和國家的起源