One way to gauge public opinion on the issue is to call a town meeting.

一个评估公众对于该问题的意见的办法是召集镇民大会。

There's only enough of them to fill a decent-sized dining room, but they call themselves the "town meeting."

他们的人数只够填满一个像样的餐厅，但他们称自己为“镇民大会”。

After the town meeting last August.

去年八月那个会以后。

Sit down as the town meeting gets underway.

就坐时镇民大会已经开始了。

The candidate attended a town meeting.

这个候选人参加了镇上的一次会议。

You should be able to get to the central library, where the town meeting is to be held.

你要赶到中央图书馆，镇民大会要在那里举行。

The planned conversion of the park into a commercial building calls for a town meeting .

把公园改建为商业大楼的计划，需要一个乡镇市民大会。

There's only enough of them to fill a decent sized dining room, but they call themselves the "town meeting."

人数刚够坐满一间小饭馆而已，但他们却称之为“镇民大会。”

So many people crowded into a recent town meeting on water that the discussion had to be postponed to find a larger venue.

在最近一次讨论水资源的镇民大会上就由于太多人拥入而不得不将大会推迟，另择会议地点。

In the town meeting Mr Smith spoke to the purpose in advocating the raising of more money to support the public schools.

在镇民大会上，史密斯先生主张筹措更多款项支持公立学校的演说得非常中肯恰当。

At a town meeting here a year ago, the villagers gathered and decided they had to move before the village is sucked under.

一年前，在一次村务会议上，村民们聚集起来，决定在村子沉入大地之前，他们必须搬离这里。

He said, imagine that we could get people to have a big town meeting for the whole world, and he said, before they were born.

他说，设想我们可以，当人未出生的时候就将他们聚集起来，开一个共同商讨世界的人民大会。

Reporter: Discussing the importance of reading to kids, you said in the town meeting that you've read the Harry Potter books to your daughters.

记者：说到给孩子读书的重要性，你在镇民大会上说你给你的女儿读《哈里·波特》。

The entire population of the town was at the meeting.

全镇的居民都出席了集会。

During the town hall meeting, she tried to make clear that she thinks she would be a chief executive with enough fortitude to confront any danger facing the country.

在市镇厅会议上，希拉里试图向大家说明，她认为自己有足够的意志力来面对美国将面临的各种危险。

At the town hall meeting Obama laid out the problems facing the US, from unemployment to patchy healthcare. "I am not a miracle worker," he said, adding that tough choices would have to be made.

在市政厅举行的会议上，奥巴马并不回避美国所面临的种种问题，从失业问题到支离破碎的医疗体系问题等。

The second phase, a National Town Hall meeting, will take place in November and involve close to 1000 stakeholders in at least 12 locations across the country.

第二阶段是全国市政会议，将于11月份召开，届时将在全国至少十二个地区涉及近千名相关人士。

And yesterday, at a town hall meeting, he promised the crowd that he will not, quote, 'pull the plug on Grandma.' Then, there was an awkward moment when Grandpa stood up and booed.

昨天，在一次城市聚会之后，他像人群承诺，他不会，我这里引用他的原话说“拔出老奶奶身上的插头”，然后，老爷爷们都站起来嘘他，这个时刻挺尴尬的。

If the meeting is across town, then the expenses are no big deal.

如果谈判会议在同一个城市，那么花费就不会很大。

Slowly but surely, tourists stopped coming, so the town held a meeting to discuss how to solve the problem of having snow collect on the power cables.

慢慢地，但是肯定的，游人们停止前来了，因此小镇举行一个会议讨论怎样解决电线积雪的问题。

I'm glad you remember me. Are you in town for the computer meeting?

很高兴你还记得我，你是到城里来开计算机会议的吧？

I was answering questions at a town hall meeting in Wisconsin the other day and a young man raised his hand, and I figured he'd ask about college tuition or energy or maybe the war in Iraq.

前一天我在威斯康星州的一个市政厅座谈会上回答问题。有一个年轻人举起手，我猜想他想问的是有关大学学费、能源问题或者也许有关伊拉克战争。