respondents

基本解释

Simply because the surveyor is asking the question, respondents believe that they should have an opinion about it.
僅僅是因爲調查者問出這樣一個問題，所以受訪者覺得他們對此應該是有觀點的。
A recent survey showed that...percent of respondents ranked...as their top priority, compared to...percent only a few years ago.
最近的一項調查表明，......的調查對象把......作爲他們的首選，相比之下，就在幾年前，衹有......的人這樣想。
Another problem with the data is that it fails to discern when respondents cheat: in a troubled time in the marriage, or at the end of a failing relationship.
研究數據的另一個問題就是，它不能分辨什麽時候廻答者會做出不忠的事來：在婚姻出現問題之時，還是一段失敗的感情結束之時？

"The four telephone surveys have reported less than one percent of the respondents had watched TV Marti over the past week.
Here is another one. This is also public stereotypes of blacks, proportion of white respondents endorsing each trait.
這一個也是對於黑人的公衆刻板印象，認爲黑人具有這樣特征的白人的比例。
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The respondents were asked to identify the organization that insures you against losing money in the stock market or as the result of investment fraud.
被調查者被問到是否知曉,在股票市場或者在投資欺詐案中,保護他們的資金不受損失的機搆
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Forty percent of respondents said they do think the SCHIP expansion might lead to government-run health care.
NPR: Poll Reflects Republican Divisions on SCHIP

A respondent is a person who replies to something such as a survey or set of questions.