gerrymander

詳細解釋：

ger.ry.man.der

v.tr.（及物動詞）
ger.ry.man.dered,ger.ry.man.der.ing,ger.ry.man.ders
To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.
不公正劃分選區：在選舉中為讓某黨派有不公正的好處而（把一個地理區域）劃分成選區
n.（名詞）
The act, process, or an instance of gerrymandering.
不公正劃分選區的行為、過程或實例
A district or configuration of districts differing widely in size or population because of gerrymandering.
不公正劃分的選區：由於不公正劃分選區而在面積和人口方面差異極大的一個區或選區結構

來源：
After &B{Elbridge} Gerry
源自 &B{厄爾布里傑} Gerry
(sala)mander [from the shape of an election district created while Gerry was governor of Massachusetts]
(sala)mander [格里任麻薩諸塞州州長時從選區形狀產生]

<注釋>.An official statement of the returns of voters for senators give[s] twenty nine friends of peace, and eleven gerrymanders..So reported the May 2, 83, edition of theMassachusetts Spy. A gerrymander sounds like a strange political beast,which in fact it is, considered from a historical perspective.This beast was named by combining the wordsalamander, .a small lizardlike amphibian,. with the last name of Elbridge Gerry, a former governor of Massachusetts— a state noted for its varied, often colorful political fauna.Gerry (whose name, incidentally, was pronounced with a hardg, though gerrymander is now commonly pronounced with a soft g ) was immortalized in this way because an election district created by members of his party in 82 looked like a salamander.According to one version of howgerrymander was coined, the shape of the district attracted the eye of the painter Gilbert Stuart,who noticed it on a map hanging in a newspaper editor`s office.Stuart decorated the map with a head, wings, and clawsand then said to the editor, .That will do for a salamander!..Gerrymander!. came the reply.A new political beast was created then and there.The word is first recorded in April 82 with respect to the creature or its caricature,but it soon came to mean not only .the action of shaping a district to gain political advantage.but also .any representative elected from such a district by that method..Within the same yeargerrymander was also recorded as a verb.
.一份答覆參議員選舉人的官方聲明宣布了二十九個和平夥伴和十一個不公正劃分的選區。.在83年3月2日的一期麻薩諸塞州觀察報 上有如上報導。 一個不公正劃分選區聽起來象是一個奇怪的政治怪獸，事實上它是來自歷史上的觀點。這個怪獸是由兩個詞合併而命名的，即salamander .一種蜥蜴狀的兩棲動物，.及麻薩諸塞州州長埃爾布里奇·格里的姓。 而馬薩諸薩州以其多變的、通常多姿多彩的政治動物群而聞名。格里（他的名字碰巧發重音g， 儘管 gerrymander 現在普遍發輕音 g， ）以此種方式而垂名史冊， 因為82年由他所在黨成員組建的選舉區就象一隻蠑螈。根據一種gerrymander 如何被創造的觀點， 該區的形狀吸引了一位畫家基爾伯特·斯圖亞特，他在一家報紙的主編辦公室里掛在牆上的地圖中發現了它。斯圖爾特又畫上頭、翅膀和爪子，然後對主編說，.那就象只蠑螈了！..Gerrymander！.主編回答道。此時此地一個新的政治怪獸產生了。這個詞於82年4月首次被記錄是在談到這種牲畜或諷刺的畫中，但很快，它就不僅意味.為贏得政治優勢的改變區劃的行動.，而且有.用此種方法選出的任何代表.的意思。同年gerrymander 也被作為一個動詞而記載下來