Senate
['senɪt] or ['sɛnət]
解釋/意思:
(n.) An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions.
(n.) A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority.
(n.) The upper and less numerous branch of a legislature in various countries, as in France, in the United States, in most of the separate States of the United States, and in some Swiss cantons.
(n.) In general, a legislative body; a state council; the legislative department of government.
(n.) The governing body of the Universities of Cambridge and London.
(n.) In some American colleges, a council of elected students, presided over by the president of the college, to which are referred cases of discipline and matters of general concern affecting the students.
校對:南森
解釋/意思:
n. a legislative or deliberative body esp. the upper house of a national legislature as of France the United States &c.: a body of venerable or distinguished persons: the governing body of the University of Cambridge.—ns. Sen′ate-house a house in which a senate meets; Sen′ator a member of a senate: in Scotland the lords of session are called Senators of the College of Justice.—adj. Senatō′rial pertaining to or becoming a senate or a senator.—adv. Senatō′rially with senatorial dignity.—ns. Sen′atorship; Senā′tus a governing body in certain universities.—Senātus academicus the governing body of a Scotch university consisting of the principal and professors; Senātus consult a decree of the senate of ancient Rome.
整理:罗拉
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. A body of elderly gentlemen charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
錄入:索尔
例句/造句/用法:
- And particularly, whether they were ever admitted as members in the lower senate? 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- So Galileo did, and as a result the senate elected him to the Professorship at Padua for life, with a salary of one thousand florins yearly. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- It was a war between the idea of a united Italy and the idea of the rule of the Roman Senate. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- More and more important grow the legions; less and less significant are the Senate and the assemblies of Rome. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- So long as there was no actual violence, the Senate and the financiers kept on in their own disastrous way. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He appeared not in the streets except when he went to the forum or the senate house. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- We know that probably his deepest sincerity is an attempt to reproduce the atmosphere of the Senate a hundred years ago. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Caligula, when he put his brother to death, gave it as a reason to the Senate that the youth was afraid of being murdered. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- He was the father-in-law of Hasdrubal and the father of a boy Hannibal, destined to be the most dreaded enemy that ever scared the Roman Senate. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- When it had seemed doubtful whether the Senate would let him go as the Roman general, he had threatened an appeal to the people. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I desired that the senate of Rome might appear before me, in one large chamber, and an assembly of somewhat a later age in counterview, in another. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- No class of public-spirited and trustworthy men remained; no senate nor council shared and developed his schemes. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The next year was also a year of failure for the incompetents of the Senate. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But no one need go abroad for actual experience: in the United States Senate during the Taft administration there were really three parties--Republicans, Insurgents and Democrats. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- He expelled Manlius from the Senate for giving his wife a kiss in the daytime in the sight of their daughter. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
校對:罗尼