1. They had a plurality in the election but were just short of a majority.
    他们选举中得票最多，但距半数以上还差一点。

1. 多：Sedley认为,巴门尼德叩开白昼与黑夜的玄关之鈅意味着着哲人的知性之旅出离了现象世界,因为白昼与黑夜的此起彼伏乃象征着现象世界的杂多(plurality)与变易(change).

2. 多数：针对这样的问题,本文提出一种基于多数(plurality)的扩展表决系统:使用构造决策树的方法和进行DFT遍历作为自动化的计算工具;通过对基本的多数表决系统进行模型扩展,加入指导性规则对决策树进行重构,以自动计算工具的结果作为参考,

3. 胜出票数(当选人比得票次多者多出的票数)：plural society 多元社会 | plurality 胜出票数(当选人比得票次多者多出的票数) | policy programme 政策纲领

1. 多数状态；诸多；众多
    If there is a plurality of things, a number of them exist.

    e.g. Federalism implies a plurality of political authorities, each with its own powers.
           联邦制意味着存在众多各自都拥有权力的政治管理机构。

2. （超过其他任何一方的）多数
    If a candidate, political party, or idea has the support of a plurality of people, they have more support than any other candidate, party, or idea.

    e.g. The Conservative party retained a plurality of the votes...
           保守党保住了选票的多数优势。
    e.g. 35% of the population, a plurality, believed that the economic reforms would result in only insignificant change.
           有35%的多数民众认为，经济改革不会带来实质性的变革。

3. （指选举中获胜者得到的不及其他所有候选人得票总和的）相对多数（票）
    A plurality in an election is the number of votes that the winner gets, when this is less than the total number of votes for all the other candidates.

plurality是什么意思

    e.g. He only got a plurality on November 3rd, just 49 percent.
           他在11月3号的选举中仅获得了49%的相对多数票。

4. （指选举中获得最多票数的候选人与得票数第二的候选人之间的）票数差额
    A plurality in an election is the difference in the number of votes between the candidate who gets the most votes and the candidate who comes second.

plurality在线翻译

    e.g. Franklin had won with a plurality in electoral votes of 449 to 82.
           富兰克林在选举团投票中以449票比82票的差额胜出。

1. (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes)

    Synonym: relative majority

2. a large indefinite number

    e.g. a battalion of ants
           a multitude of TV antennas
           a plurality of religions

    Synonym: battalionlarge numbermultitudepack

3. the state of being plural

    e.g. to mark plurality, one language may add an extra syllable to the word whereas another may simply change the vowel in the existing final syllable