Whether it was " hanging chads, " " pregnant chads" or " dimpled chads, " it amounted to the same problem.
无论是“悬吊的乍得”,“怀孕的乍得”,还是“带酒窝的乍得”,都是相同的问题。
老爸老妈的浪漫史视频版(第一季)
No thanks. I'm sticking with the hanging chad.
不 谢了 我仍着迷我的选举牌。
第九季
Is Ted still wearing his hanging chad costume?
泰德还在穿他那套选举牌变装服啊?
当月 CNN 10 学生英语
A grueling 36-day Florida recount battle stemmed from problems with the state's punch card machines where poor ballot design left hanging chads on some ballots.
Some 30 states use so-called direct-recording devices, usually with electronic screens, that were initially seen as an antidote to hanging chads and other foibles resulting from archaic punch-card devices.
In Florida, legislators rewrote state laws, switched to paper ballots and optical scanners (no more butterfly ballots or hanging chads), and mandated automatic recounts for races with margins of half a percentage point.
Chad refers to fragments sometimes created when holes are made in a paper, card or similar synthetic materials, such as computer punched tape or punched cards. "Chad" has been used both as a mass noun (as in "a pile of chad") and as a countable noun (pluralizing as in "many chads").