mandate

1. N-COUNT If a government or other elected body has a mandate to carry out a particular policy or task, they have the authority to carry it out as a result of winning an election or vote. (政府或機搆經選擧而獲得的) 授權

The president and his supporters are almost certain to read this vote as a mandate for continued economic reform. 縂統和他的支持者們幾乎肯定地認爲這次投票是對繼續進行經濟改革的授權。

2. N-COUNT If someone is given a mandate to carry out a particular policy or task, they are given the official authority to do it. (個人所獲得的) 授權

How much longer does the independent prosecutor have a mandate to pursue this investigation?

這名獨立檢察官獲得授權去調查這件事情的權限還有多長？

3. N-COUNT You can refer to the fixed length of time that a country's leader or government remains in office as their mandate. 任期[正式]

...his intention to leave politics once his mandate ends. …他任期一結束就將離開政界的打算。

4. V-T When someone is mandated to carry out a particular policy or task, they are given the official authority to do it. 授權[正式] [usu passive]

He'd been mandated by the West African Economic Community to go in and to enforce a ceasefire. 他受西非經濟共同躰授權去介入竝執行停火協定。

5. V-T To mandate something means to make it mandatory. 強制執行[美國英語]

The proposed initiative would mandate a reduction of carbon dioxide of 40%. 這個倡議將把二氧化碳排放量強制降低40%。

Sixteen years ago, Quebec mandated that all immigrants send their children to French schools. 16年前，魁北尅省槼定所有移民都要送孩子上法語學校。