canvass 核心词议：
v. 游说，拉选票；征求意见；详细讨论；提出
n. 拉选票，征求意见；讨论；细查
canvass 基本解释
vt.& vi. （在政治方面）游说；调查意见；为讨论而提出（意见等）；详细检查
n. 检票员，游说者；讨论；细查；劝诱
vt. 揽（货）
速记方法
速记技巧
词源词根法
【词源解释】是canvas（帆布）的另一种拼写，原本表示“用帆布来筛”，引申出“细究”等诸多含义。来自canvas，原指用帆布筛选种子等，后指针对特定人进行游说，拉选票。
知识扩展
canvass 变化形式
复数： canvasses
第三人称单数： canvasses
过去式： canvassed
过去分词： canvassed
现在分词： canvassing
中文词源：
canvass 游说，拉选票
来自canvas, 原指用帆布筛选种子等，后指针对特定人进行游说，拉选票。
canvass
精选例句
1、 The party needs to canvass the uncommitted voters.
这个党需要向未表明态度的选民游说拉票。
2、 Firefox 3 also now supports transformation functions for the canvass objects.
Firefox 3现在还支持对canvass对象的变换函数。
常见考点例句：
- Instead of walking the tree-lined streets near our home , my wife and I were instructed to canvass a housing project .
- 我老婆和我不是在我家附近的林荫大道上拉票，而是去进行挨家挨户的攻势。
- I also reviewed the operations in two other towns that were less well organized and urged the state headquarters to at least make sure they had complete voter lists and the capacity to do the phone canvass .
- 我还批评了另外两个镇组织不佳的竞选活动，向州竞选总部强烈要求，至少要确保这两个地方有完整的投票者名单，同时要具备开展电话拉票的能力。
- When it took weeks for the campaign to vet volunteers in texas who wanted to canvass in nearby states , brady proposed a streamlined online interview format that the campaign adopted , whittling the approval process to a few days .
- 在竞选运动工作人员还要花费数周停留在得克萨斯，给想到周边其他州去拉票的志愿者们答疑解惑的时候，brady拿出了一套流程化的在线访谈格式，把审核流程削减到了几天。
- Candidates are not allowed to canvass on election day .
- 候选人于选举当日不可拉票。
- Much of the money he raised online was spent on television advertisements , and activists recruited via websites were deployed to canvass voters face-to-face .
- 在线筹集的钱大多数用于电视广告，而网站上征兆的活动家们被派去面对面拉选举人的选票。