life peer

life peer

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• n.（英國爵位不能世襲的）終身貴族
• 網絡一代貴族

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

na.

1. 一代貴族

英英解釋

n.

1. somebody who is granted a title and seat in the British House of Lords that cannot be inherited 2. somebody who is granted a title and seat in the House of Lords that cannot be inherited. People are often made life peers when they have failed to be re-elected to the House of Commons, to allow them to continue to work on behalf of their political party. 3. a British peer whose family cannot keep the title after he or she dies. Peers who can pass their title to their children are called hereditary peers.

例句

but recently a new sort of Lord, a "life peer" , has been introduced into the House of Lords.

大多數勛爵是“世襲”的，即兒子可以繼承父親的頭銜。但近來一種新的勛爵，即“非世襲的終身貴族”進入了上議院。

She was elevated to the House of Lords as a Labour life peer in 1999.

此后，在1999年，她被擢升到上議院，成為一名工黨終身貴族。

He was knighted in 1957 and later made a life peer.

他于1957年被封為爵士，而且后來也成為一位終身貴族。

He was knighted in 1992 and created and an honorary life peer in 1997.

韋伯于1992年被授予爵士頭銜，1997年晉升為終身貴族。

A life peer is created by the Government under the Life Peerages Act 1958, which also admitted women to membership for the first time.

在1958年的終身貴族法案中，政府確認了這項封號，同時還第一次給予婦女獲得爵位的權利。