[N-COUNT 可数名词]代表；代理人 A representative is a person who has been chosen to act or make decisions on behalf of another person or a group of people.
...trade union representatives...
工会代表
Employees from each department elect a representative.
每个部门的员工选举一名代表。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]销售代表；销售代理 A representative is a person whose job is to sell a company's products or services, especially by travelling round and visiting other companies.
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She had a stressful job as a sales representative.
作为一名销售代表，她的工作压力很大。
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[ADJ 形容词]由代表组成的；代议制的 A representative group consists of a small number of people who have been chosen to make decisions on behalf of a larger group.
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The new head of state should be chosen by an 87 member representative council.
新的国家元首应该由包括87名成员的代表委员会选出。
...the institutions of a representative government.
代议制政府的各个机构
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]典型的；有代表性的 Someone who is typical of the group to which they belong can be described as representative .
[oft ADJ of n]
He was in no way representative of dog-trainers in general.
他远不是一般意义上的驯狗师。
...fairly representative groups of adults.
相当典型的成年人群体
representativeness
...a process designed to ensure the representativeness of the sample interviewed.
为保证抽样的对象具有代表性而设计的过程
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](美国)众议员 In the United States, a Representative is a member of the House of Representatives, the less powerful of the two parts of Congress.
representativerepresentativesnoun★representative(of sb/sth) 1★a person who has been chosen to speak or vote for sb else or on behalf of a group 代表◆a representative of the UN联合国代表◆our elected representatives in government政府中我们选举产生的代表◆a union representative工会代表◆The committee includes representatives from industry.这个委员会包括产业界的代表。2★(alsoinformalrep)a person who works for a company and travels around selling its products 销售代表；销售代理；代销人◆a sales representative销售代表◆She's our representative in France.她是我们公司驻法国的销售代表。3★a person chosen to take the place of sb else 代表；代表他人者◆He was the Queen's representative at the ceremony.他代表女王出席了庆典。4★a person who is typical of a particular group 典型人物；代表性人物◆The singer is regarded as a representative of the youth of her generation.这位歌手被看作是她那一代年轻人的典型代表。5Representative(abbr.Rep. )(in the US) a member of the House of Representatives, the Lower House of Congress; a member of the House of Representatives in the lower house of a state parliament （美国）众议院议员adjective★1★representative(of sb/sth) typical of a particular group of people 典型的；有代表性的◆Is a questionnaire answered by 500 people truly representativeof the population as a whole? 由 500 人参加的问卷调查能真正代表所有民众吗？2★[usually before noun ]containing or including examples of all the different types of people or things in a large group 代表各类人（或事物）的◆a representative sampleof teachers 各类教师的代表3★representative(of sth) able to be used as a typical example of sth 可作为典型（或示例）的◆The painting is not representative of his work of the period.这幅画不是他在那个时期的代表作。4(of a system of government, etc. 政治体制等)consisting of people who have been chosen to speak or vote on behalf of the rest of a group 由代表组成的；代议制的◆a representative democracy代议制民主政体OPP
1someone who has been chosen to speak, vote, or make decisions for someone elseSYN delegate: a union representativerepresentative of an elected representative of the people2Representative a member of the House of Representatives, the Lower House of Congress in the United States
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representative2 adjective
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1typical of a particular group or thingrepresentative of The latest incident is representative of a wider trend.► see thesaurus at
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2including examples of all the different types of something in a group: The pollsters asked a representative sample of New York residents for their opinions.3a representative system of government allows people to vote for other people to represent them in the government: a representative democracy
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