The result is a shock to most political experts and pollsters.

这一选举结果让众多政客人士与民意检测专家大跌眼镜。

Pollsters found almost half of those asked preferred the more informal "cheers", while others liked to use such expressions as "ta", "great" and "nice one".

调查者发现，近一半的被调查者更喜欢非正式的“cheers”，而其他人喜欢使用“ta”、“great”和“nice one”这样的表达。

Pollsters rarely venture out to such areas.

民调业者很少愿意去这些地区冒险。

People sometimes lie to pollsters, however.

不过有时候人们不对调查者说真话。

Most pollsters ignored them until early last year.

许多民意调查机构直到去年年初才开始重视这个问题。

That is, according to some marketing men and pollsters.

这一说法来源于营销人员和民意调查。

Most Bulgarian voters tell pollsters they trust EU institutions.

在民意测验中，保加利亚的大多数选民表示他们对欧盟机构信任有加。

ID CARDS 'popularity depends on how pollsters phrase their questions.

判断身份证是否受到欢迎取决于民意调查者如何对其问题进行措辞。

Some pollsters suggest that the MHP’s plight has chalked up sympathy votes.

一些民意调查经办人建议民族主义者行动党（MHP）的困境已经取得了同情票。

Pollsters might want to add weight to the clipboards they give people, for one.

比如说，民意调查者可能想给人们的纸夹笔记板增加重量。

Pollsters have found a majority in favour of allowing civil marriage in Lebanon.

民意测验专家也发现大多数人都希望能在黎巴嫩公证结婚。

There is less pressure to lie to pollsters than there was even a decade ago.

人们要对民调员撒谎的压力甚至也比十年前小了很多。

Granted, the western desert state has not exactly been besieged by the pollsters.

这西部的沙漠州还没有被民意测验所精确统计。

If Mr Serra wins today, the pollsters will have to do a great deal of explaining.

如果塞拉今天获胜，民意调查人士就得做大量的解释工作了。

Voters, by most pollsters' accounts, are becoming less energised about global warming.

据大多数民意测验专家的统计，选民对于全球变暖这个问题越来越冷淡。

More than 90% of Indians and Chinese tell pollsters that they are optimistic about the future.

超过90%的印度人和中国人告诉民意调查者，他们对未来充满了信心。

Most pollsters doubt that they can add the ten seats they would need to capture the Senate.

多数民调专家不太相信他们能另增俘获参议院所必须的十个席位。

More than 90% of Indians and Chinese tell pollsters that they are optimistic about the future.

有超过90%的印度人和中国人对调查者表示他们对未来感到乐观。

Finally, Guatemala is one of Latin America's most rural societies, which makes it a nightmare for pollsters.

最后，危地马拉是拉美最农村化的国家之一，这对民意调查人员来说就是一场噩梦。

In January last year a majority of Americans started telling pollsters that invading Iraq had been a mistake.

去年一月，多数美国人开始告诉民调机构，入侵伊拉克是个错误。

Pollsters, who have not always been accurate in their predictions of Palestinian voting, say Fatah should win.

民调专家说法塔赫应该会赢，但他们预测巴勒斯坦投票率时并非总是正确。

Almost 30% of Americans tell pollsters that America is not ready to put a septuagenarian into the White House.

几乎有三成美国民众告诉民调机构美国还没有准备好让一位70好几的老人入主白宫。

In certain, rare circumstances voters do not tell pollsters the truth, more out of embarrassment than mendacity.

可以肯定的是，选民们不对民意调查专家说真话的情况很少，如果不是尴尬则不会撒谎。

Public opinion is ambiguous: voters tell pollsters they dislike bail-outs, but do not want to see the euro destroyed.

公共舆论模棱两可：选民们告诉民意调查人称他们不喜欢应急措施，但是他们也不想看到欧元毁灭。

It MAY not have been the electoral tsunami some pollsters had been predicting, but it was still pretty impressive.

这或许还不能算是一些民调预测专家所谓的选举风波，但是仍然惊心动魄。

Pollsters may also have failed to predict a run-off because they did not ask whether respondents intended to vote.

另外调查者不询问调查对象是否有意在选举中投票也会导致预测结果不准确。