Croatia voters back same-sex marriage ban

Background knowledge:

Croatia:克羅埃西亞，人口約4百萬(台南約1千8百萬人)，觀光業比重高，人均GDP$15k(台$23k)，主要信仰天主教。

Vocabulary:

formalise: make official

petition:請願書，連署 多元成家我支持連署

constitution:憲法

a constitutional ban:

socially conservative: people who are traditional and who do not like change

記:conserved force保守力，conservation守恆

out of: from among，從...之中，之外

Sentence:

Around three-quarters of a million people signed it - out of a total population of just over 4 million.

在總人口4萬多之中，有約75萬(100萬*3/4)人署名。