respondents

基本解释

Simply because the surveyor is asking the question, respondents believe that they should have an opinion about it.
仅仅是因为调查者问出这样一个问题，所以受访者觉得他们对此应该是有观点的。
A recent survey showed that...percent of respondents ranked...as their top priority, compared to...percent only a few years ago.
最近的一项调查表明，......的调查对象把......作为他们的首选，相比之下，就在几年前，只有......的人这样想。
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.
研究数据的另一个问题就是，它不能分辨什么时候回答者会做出不忠的事来：在婚姻出现问题之时，还是一段失败的感情结束之时？

"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.
这一个也是对于黑人的公众刻板印象，认为黑人具有这样特征的白人的比例。
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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.
被调查者被问到是否知晓,在股票市场或者在投资欺诈案中,保护他们的资金不受损失的机构
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Forty percent of respondents said they do think the SCHIP expansion might lead to government-run health care.
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A respondent is a person who replies to something such as a survey or set of questions.