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单词 parliament
释义
parliament
noun
uk
/ˈpɑː.lɪ.mənt/us
/ˈpɑːr.lə.mənt/
B2[CorU]
in somecountries, thegroupof (usually)electedpoliticiansor otherpeoplewho make thelawsfortheircountry:
议会
OnTuesdaythe country's parliamentvotedtoestablishitsownarmy.该国议会于周二投票决定建立自己的军队。
She waselectedto Parliament in 1997.她于1997年被选为国会议员。
[C]
aparticularperiodoftimeduring which a parliament isoperating, between eitherholidaysorelections
议会活动期
More examples
  • There are twochambersin the British parliament - theHouseofCommonsis thelowerchamber, and theHouseof Lords is theupperchamber.
  • If there were as many women as there are men in parliament, thesituationwould be very different.
  • Theoppositionleaderleda veryforcefulattackon thegovernmentin parliament thismorning.
  • When abillispassedin parliament itbecomeslaw.
  • After 30yearsin thepoliticalarena,ourlocalmemberof parliament isretiringnextyear.
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  • the House of Commons
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Politics - general words
(Definition ofparliamentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

parliament| American Dictionary

parliament
noun[C/U]
us
/ˈpɑr·lə·mənt/
world history
thegroupofpeoplewho make thelawsin somecountries
world history
Parliament often refers to thelegislatureof theUnitedKingdom ofGreatBritainandNorthernIreland.

parliamentary

adjective[not gradable]us
/ˌpɑr·ləˈmen·tər·i,-ˈmen·tri/
a parliamentaryelection
(Definition ofparliamentfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

parliament| Business English

parliament
noun[CorU]
GOVERNMENT,POLITICS
uk
/ˈpɑːləmənt/us
in somecountries, agroupofpoliticianswho have beenelectedto makelawsfor thecountry:
They arehopingtopusharadicalincometaxreformthrough parliament.
Currently, women'sissuesare not beingdealtwithproperlyin parliament.
(Definition ofparliamentfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofparliament

parliament
The attempt to convey the moral illegitimacy of the government's and parliament's continuation of apprenticeship was fierce.
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However, instinct should be subject to cultural restraint and social intelligence, in international affairs just as in the ordinary world of police courts and parliaments.
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Despite these criticisms, the schedule readily passed all colonial parliaments.
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A second section discusses the contribution of parliaments in fostering government accountability.
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One way of checking on this is to see whether left-right positions of governments line up with their parliaments.
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To check this we investigate how accurately parliaments and governments represent the left-right position of the median voter in each of twenty parliamentary democracies.
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We have seen from the above that export expansions are robustly associated with a rising hazard of early elections as parliaments mature.
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Obviously, parliaments were ripe occasions for viceroys with monarchical pretensions to play out their fantasies.
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To illustrate the extent of parliament's acquiescence, it is instructive to compare the failure rate of enclosure legislation with that of non-enclosure legislation.
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Large estates permanently confiscated from great delinquents and fractions of estates taken from lesser offenders could be bought by parliament's supporters.
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Although its inclusion improves the fit of models, the lagged change in the inflation variable appears to be an artefact of two extremely short parliaments.
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The current complexion of parliaments shows the continued growth of professional legislators.
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First, parliaments are central to traditional normative concerns about democratic legitimacy and representation.
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The first section of the article outlined the emergence of parliaments as bourgeois institutions.
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Table 6 gives the coefficients for the pairs of coalitions over the five parliaments.
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Collocationswithparliament

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These are words often used in combination withparliament.

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bicameral parliament
The national legislature is a bicameral parliament.
From theCambridge English Corpus
democratic parliament
Should not they be given credit for the great steps that they have already taken in establishing ademocraticparliament?
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
dissolution of parliament
However, it is not difficult to think of other circumstances in which an early dissolution of parliament would be desirable, if not essential, for the good of the country.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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