mandate的过去式

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

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。

• mandate of protest票据拒付或拒绝承兑通...
• 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