Parliament
['pɑːləm(ə)nt] or ['pɑrləmənt]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A parleying; a discussion; a conference.
(n.) A formal conference on public affairs; a general council; esp., an assembly of representatives of a nation or people having authority to make laws.
(n.) The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the nation, and to enact and repeal laws.
(n.) In France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of the several principal judicial courts.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. House of Lords and House of Commons (of Great Britain and Ireland).
編輯:罗赞娜
解釋/意思:
n. a meeting for deliberation: the supreme legislature of Great Britain also of some of her colonies: in France down to the Revolution one of certain superior and final courts of judicature in which also the edicts of the king were registered before becoming law.—adjs. Parliamentā′rian adhering to the Parliament in opposition to Charles I.; Parliament′ary pertaining to parliament: enacted or done by parliament: according to the rules and practices of legislative bodies.—Parliamentary agent a person employed by private persons or societies for drafting bills or managing business to be brought before parliament; Parliamentary borough a borough having the right of sending a member or members to parliament; Parliamentary train a train which by act of parliament runs both ways along a line of railway at least once each day at the rate of one penny per mile.—Act of parliament a statute that has passed through both the House of Commons and the House of Lords and received the formal royal assent.
錄入:纳塔莉亚
例句/造句/用法:
- And do they know that, by that statute, money is not to be raised on the subject but by consent of Parliament? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- His mother wished to interest him in political concerns, to get him into parliament, or to see him connected with some of the great men of the day. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- It was incorporated, in pursuance of an act of parliament, by a charter under the great seal, dated the 27th of July 1694. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Mr. Huskisson, one of the members of Parliament for Liverpool, and a warm friend and supporter of Stephenson and the railroad, had stepped from his coach, and was standing on the railway. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Their exclusive charter has not been confirmed by act of parliament. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It provided by a bill for a meeting of Parliament at least once in three years, whether the King summoned it or no. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- She would marry him, he would go into Parliament in the Conservative interest, he would clear up the great muddle of labour and industry. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- All idea of a Peerage was out of the question, the Baronet's two seats in Parliament being lost. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- When Parliament refused supplies, he demanded loans from various subjects, and attempted similar illegal exactions. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- An easy people to govern, in the Parliament and in the Kitchen--that's the moral of it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The States-General was far less representative of the whole body of citizens than was the English Parliament even in its Venetian days. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Though those complaints produced no act of parliament, they had probably intimidated the company so far, as to oblige them to reform their conduct. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Parliament has not yet taken notice of them, but the newspapers are in full cry against America. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Upon Clive Parliament passed a vote of censure. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They became the type on which the Parliament sought to reconstruct its entire army. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- BOOK VIII THE AGE OF THE GREAT POWERS XXXVI PRINCES, PARLIAMENTS, AND POWERS § 1. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Now because of the Union of the Parliaments, the enfranchisement of the English and Irish populations went on simultaneously. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Her assembly at Westminster was to become the Mother of Parliaments throughout the world. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And as to ourselves, we need no longer have recourse to the late glorious stand of the French parliaments to excite our emulation. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
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