Noun:

1. a document giving an official instruction or command

2. a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves

3. the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory

Verb:

1. assign under a mandate;

   "mandate a colony"
   

2. make mandatory;

   "the new director of the school board mandated regular tests"
   

3. assign authority to

1.(政府或经选举组建的机构的)授权，委托
If a government or other elected body has amandate 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.

e.g. The President and his supporters are almost certain to read this vote as amandate for continued economic reform...
总统及其支持者几乎肯定地认为这次投票是对继续进行经济改革的授权。
e.g. The union already has amandate from its conference to ballot for a strike .
工会已经得到大会的授权为罢工进行投票。

2.授权;委托;委任
If someone is given amandate to carry out a particular policy or task, they are given the official authority to do it.

e.g. How much longer does the independent prosecutor have amandate to pursue this investigation?...
独立检察官受命调查这件事还要多长时间？
e.g. Amandate from the UN would be needed before any plans could be implemented.
执行任何计划都需要联合国的授权。

3.任期；在任期；统治期
You can refer to the fixed length of time that a country's leader or government remains in office as theirmandate .

e.g. ...his intention to leave politics once hismandate ends.
他关于任期一满就离开政界的打算。

4.授权;委任
When someoneis mandated to carry out a particular policy or task, they are given the official authority to do it.

e.g. He'd been mandated by the West African Economic Community to go in and to enforce a ceasefire...
他受西非经济共同体的委托介入并执行停火协定。
e.g. The elections are mandated by a peace accord signed by the government last May.
选举是在去年5月政府签署的和平协议的授权下进行的。

5.批准;颁布;强制执行
Tomandate something means to make it mandatory.

e.g. The proposed initiative wouldmandate a reduction of carbon dioxide of 40%...
倡议将强制规定把二氧化碳排放量降低40%。
e.g. Quebec mandated that all immigrants send their children to French schools.
魁北克省颁布法令，强制所有移民将子女送进法语学校就读。

1. 训令：EMEA董事会通过了将ad hoc小组转变为EMEA永久性工作组的训令(mandate),在原小组的基础上

2. 委任：区别论认为,委任(mandate)与授权(authority power of agent)应严格区别开来. 委任是本人与代理人之间的内部契约关系,属单方民事行为. 授权则是外部关系,是本人及代理人同第三人关系的法律依据,是双方法律行为.

The government gave the police a mandate to reduce crime.

政府命令警方进一步打击犯罪活动。

We have a mandate from the union membership to proceed with strike action.

我们获得工会会员同意，继续罢工。

You should follow the doctor's mandate.

你该听从医师的要求。

Our election victory has given us a mandate to reform the economy.

我们在选举中获胜,这就使我们有权进行经济改革。

Britain was mandated to govern the former colony of German East Africa.

英国授权代管德国在东非的前殖民地。

The election victory gave the party a clear mandate to continue its programme of reform.

选举获胜使得这个政党拥有了明确的继续推行改革的权力。

a mandate for an end to the civil war

停止内战的权力

The presidential mandate is limited to two terms of four years each.

总统的任期不得超过两届，每届四年。

The bank had no mandate to honour the cheque.

银行没有得到指令来承兑这张支票。

The law mandates that imported goods be identified as such.

法律规定进口货物必须如实标明。

The assembly was mandated to draft a constitution.

大会被授权起草一份章程。

The President and his supporters are almost certain to read this vote as a mandate for continued economic reform...

总统及其支持者几乎肯定地认为这次投票是对继续进行经济改革的授权。

The union already has a mandate from its conference to ballot for a strike .

工会已经得到大会的授权为罢工进行投票。

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

独立检察官受命调查这件事还要多长时间？

A mandate from the UN would be needed before any plans could be implemented.

执行任何计划都需要联合国的授权。

...his intention to leave politics once his mandate ends.

他关于任期一满就离开政界的打算。

He'd been mandated by the West African Economic Community to go in and to enforce a ceasefire...

他受西非经济共同体的委托介入并执行停火协定。

The elections are mandated by a peace accord signed by the government last May.

选举是在去年5月政府签署的和平协议的授权下进行的。

The proposed initiative would mandate a reduction of carbon dioxide of 40%...

倡议将强制规定把二氧化碳排放量降低40%。

Quebec mandated that all immigrants send their children to French schools.

魁北克省颁布法令，强制所有移民将子女送进法语学校就读。

The General Election gave him no such mandate.

大选并未授予他这种权力.

Long has there been no doubt of Heaven's mandate.

天命不慆久矣.

I hope China will fully in breathe this mandate for all the grander of your history.

我希望中国能更充分地接受这一使命,对于一个有着辉煌历史的国家,我相信你们的鼎盛时期还在前头.

Pioneering reforms in Massachusetts have helped win over many liberals to the mandate idea.

马萨诸塞州的开拓性改革赢得了许多自由当人支持强制主张.

Man should be involved in the cultural mandate; this is the application of analogical thinking.

人应当从事文化事业, 因为这是类比思维的应用.

The mandate of heaven can be embodied in such humdrum entities as building codes.

天意却能在诸如建筑这样的单调的实体间具体表现出来.

Yet reforms would undoubtedly be more effective if they were backed by a clear popular mandate.

这位新国王本人也更受国民欢迎.

We have a mandate from the union membership to proceed with strike action.

我们获得工会会员同意,继续罢工.

Theologians often call this broader model of the Christian life ' the cultural mandate. '

神学家把这种宏观模的基督徒生命称为 “ 文化使命 ”.

He was unrelenting in his pursuit of legal mandate.

他坚决要求得到合法的托管权.

He is neither. The problem is the job 'u2013 an unelected post with no democratic mandate.

两者他都不是, 问题在于职位本身——一个未经选举产生的职位是没有民主授权的.

In papers circulated at the Ministerial Conference, member governments expressed different interpretations of this mandate.

在会议部长级文件分发的, 成员国政府对这项任务的不同解释.

If he fails, his mandate may not last long.

如果失败, PorfirioLobo获得人民的委任不会持续太久.

• mandate%20of%20protest">mandate of protest票据拒付或拒绝承兑通...
• mandate">party giving the mandate[经] 委托人

• It's all right to screw the people as long as you were given a large mandate in the previous election.

  出自：Tucson Magazine