filibusters

filibusters

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  • n.【史】掠奪兵；海盜；〈美〉(用冗長的發言)妨礙會議的議員
  • v.〈美〉(因發言冗長)妨礙(會議的進程)；掠奪
  • 網絡拉布戰；阻擾；拉布戰術

詞形變化

復數：filibusters  現在分詞：filibustering  過去式：filibustered  

英漢解釋

n.
1.
【史】掠奪兵,暴兵;海盜
2.
〈美〉(用冗長的發言)妨礙會議的議員;會議妨礙行為
v.
1.
〈美〉(因發言冗長)妨礙(會議的進程)
2.
掠奪,侵奪

英英解釋

n.

例句

Filibusters , of course, are the age-old procedural obstacles used to slow down or stop the Senate from debating and voting.

武裝分子，當然是古老的程序法的障礙，可以用來減輕或停止參議院收到的爭論和投票。

Senator George Mitchell had to have twelve votes to break filibusters just in my first hundred days.

在我就任的前100天里，參議員喬治.米切爾竟不得不12次投票來終止阻撓議事。

They fell short of the 60 Senate seats they had hoped for, which would have allowed them to avoid procedural blocks known as filibusters .

他們降低了曾希望的60位參議員的人數，這允許他們避免被稱為阻撓議事的程序塊。

American senators have resorted to filibusters now and again for 170 years (click left for table).

在170年間，美國的參議員時不時地訴諸filibuster（點擊左圖）。

Now, before this Congress, the record was 57 filibusters in a two-year period of time.

現在，在議會開始前，這一記錄在兩年的時間內的記錄是57個否決議案。

This Republican leadership has waged 78 filibusters, and we still have six months to go.

這屆參議院中，共和黨領導人已經用了78次，而且，這屆參議院還將持續6個月。

From firearms to filibusters, here are seven of the greatest, strangest and most dramatic moments in congressional history

從動用手槍到采取阻撓議事的行為，下面是國會歷史上7次最“偉大”、最奇怪和最富有戲劇性的場面。