candidate for

基本解释

He was proposed as a candidate for the headmaster.
他被荐举为校长候选人。
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The lawyer was being groomed as a candidate for mayor.
人们推荐这位律师作为市长候选人。
I realise that I am not the likeliest candidate for this office.
我认识到，对于这一职务，我不是最有希望的候选人。

Mrs.Luce agreed to be the Republican Party candidate for his seat in the House of Representatives from Connecticut.
Anytime you find yourself in this pattern, odds are, what you're doing is a candidate for being factored out, hierarchal decompositions is the buzzword you'd see in the textbooks if you're following along with any of them, but it's really just the idea of taking out common code and putting it into just one place.
任何时候你发现你处于这种模式中，可能，你所做的东西是可以提取改进的，体系分解是一个你在课本中看到的流行词,如果你遵循其中一个,这个实际上是一个把相同的代码,放到一个地方的思想。
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We're also going to assume, just as we did last time, that voters are going to vote for the closest candidate.
我们还要假设,像上次一样,选民会选择离他最近的候选人
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Now Burns is considered a top candidate for CEO after Ulukaya steps down from the position.
FORBES: #1386 Hamdi Ulukaya