House of Lords

House of Lords

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• n.（英国）上议院；上议院大楼
• 网络英国上议院；贵族院；上院

英汉双解

英汉解释

na.

1. 贵族院,上院

英英解释

n.	1. the nonelected upper house of Parliament in the United Kingdom, made up of life peers, some hereditary peers, and some bishops

例句

Yet for all that, the House of Lords is currently working better than it has for a long time.

尽管如此，上院当前的工作情况还是比以前有所提高。

The issue needed to be clarified by the House of Lords - and now we're being deprived of that.

上议院有必要予以澄清——而眼下我们还没有这个结果。

And in May the House of Lords halted passage of a bill that would have given doctors some scope to help grown ups to die.

在五月的时候，上议院曾拒绝通过一项可能会使医生有权限用安乐死结束病痛婴儿生命的法案。

A conference they staged in London last October was co-hosted by four British universities, plus the House of Lords.

他们去年10月在伦敦召开的一次会议是由4个英国大学与上议院（HouseofLords）共同举办的。

The House of Lords performs its work well, but lacks sufficient democratic authority, " he said. "

虽然上议院很好地履行了职责，但其民主权威性不足。

Under another set of proposals due to be unveiled in May, the present House of Lords is earmarked for abolition.

在其他将于5月揭晓的一系列提案中，当前的上议院又被打上了待废止的标签。

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

大多数勋爵是“世袭”的，即儿子可以继承父亲的头衔。但近来一种新的勋爵，即“非世袭的终身贵族”进入了上议院。

"At the Council board he was taciturn ; and in the House of Lords he never opened his lips" (Macaulay).

“在众议院他沉默寡言；在参议院中他从不开口”：（麦考莱）。

At present, around the "parliamentary elections and the electoral Act, " the atmosphere of the House of Lords has become extremely fierce.

目前，围绕《议会选举和选区法案》，上议院的气氛已经变得极为激烈。

Half way up the stairs there was a lavatory. . . "The House of Lords , " said Jake.

楼梯中间有个厕所……“人家管它叫‘上议院’，”杰克说。

A friend, very beautiful still at 71, recently referred to the impact she had "as a girl" making her first visit to the House of Lords.

有一位朋友71岁，仍然很漂亮，她最近谈到首次到访英国国会上议院时，她“作为女孩”所带来的影响。

She was appointed (not elected) by the Labour Party to the House of Lords, from where she was sent to Brussels as trade commissioner.

后工党指任（非选举）其进入上议院，此后她被派往布鲁塞尔当人贸易委员。

Two years after his retirement in 1977, Peter Hill-Norton was made Baron and a member of the House of Lords.

自1977年退休两年之后，彼得.希尔.诺顿就被授予男爵爵位以及上议院议员一职。

However, as it was, L made his application in 1948 and the court followed the ratio of the 1946 House of Lords' decision.

不过，事实上，L于1948年提起他的申请，法庭遵照1946年上议院的判决理由作出了裁判。

The United Kingdom is a unitary, not a federal, state. Parliament consists of the Sovereign, the House of Lords and the House of Commons.

英国是中央集权国家，而不是联邦制国家。议会由君主，上议院和下议院组成。

The cure of admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

要治疗你对上议院的羡慕，只要到那里去看一下。

Before reform in 2005 we tolerated a lord chancellor who sought to be a minister, a judge and Speaker of the House of Lords.

2005年改革之前，我们曾允许上议院大臣兼任内阁大臣、法官和上议院议长。

House of Lords, known as Peers, are less important but more independent than House of Commons.

上议院，就是贵族院，没有下议院重要但更独立。

One proposal would offer retired peers associate membership, including the right to return and visit the House of Lords for tea.

一项提议表示给予退休的贵族议员副会员的资格，包括有权回到上议院喝喝茶。

Mr Wilders was invited to the House of Lords for a screening of Fitna by the UK Independence Party's Lord Pearson.

Wilders先生是应英国独立党党首Pearson之邀赴英国上议院放映他的影片《Fitna》。

Not until July 2008 did the British House of Lords vote to abolish the common law crimes of blasphemy and blasphemous libel.

直到2008年7月，英国上议院（HouseofLords）才投票废止了习惯法中的亵渎神明和亵渎诽谤罪。

In 1946 in a similar case between different parties the House of Lords overruled the Court of Appeal case of 1942.

在1946年的一起不同当事人的类似案例中，上议院推翻了1942年上诉法院的那个案件。

be composed of The British Parliament is composed of the House of Commons and the House of Lords.

英国国会是由下议院和上议院组成的。

Eventually, in March 1605, Thomas Percy was able to use his connections at the Royal Court to rent a cellar right under the House of Lords!

最后，在1605年3月，托马斯·珀西利用他在宫廷的关系租用了一个位于上议院正下方的地窖！

In the same year, the House of Lords ruled that same sex partners should be treated as family and have the right to succeed a tenancy.

在同一年，上议院规定同性伴侣应做为家庭对待，有权获得租方合约。

All want the House of Lords to be wholly or largely elected under a proportional voting system.

它们都希望上议院全部或大部分是通过比例选举制选举产生。

In a statement to the House of Lords, he stressed the fact that 300, 000 UK companies were operating elsewhere in Europe.

在递交上议院（HouseofLords）的一份声明中，他强调有30万家英国公司在欧洲其他地区运营。

The British Parliament consists of the House of Lords and the House of the Commons.

英国议会是由上议院和下议院构成的。

Legislation must be considered and passed by the House of Lords.

立法必须得到上议院的审查和通过。

Proposals to detain without charge people suspected of terrorism for up to 42 days foundered in the House of Lords in 2008.

2008年，可以不经过审判对疑似恐怖分子实行最长42天的扣留的提议在上议院中未获通过。

In the afternoon of 17 to 18 on the morning of a Parliament, the British House of Lords, Members of more than extreme fatigue.

在17日下午到18日上午的一场议会审议中，英国上议院多名议员极度疲倦。

House of Lords investigation in 1998 broadly hailed the medical potential of cannabis, as well as of compounds obtained from it.

1998年，英国上议院的一项调查就大力推荐、赞赏大麻和其提取物制药的无限潜力。

Women were given the right to stand for Parliament in 1918 but still could not become members of the House of Lords.

1918年女性得到出席国会的权利，但尚未能够成为上议院一份子。

British government insisted that the bill in full accordance with existing content, schedule adopted in the House of Lords.

英国政府坚持要求这一法案完全按照现有内容，按期在上议院通过。

That fine and difficult judgment is being revisited this week in the House of Lords, in two different ways.

本周这一精美复杂的论断在上议院被重新审议，而且还是以两种不同的方式。

Helen Newlove, whose husband Gary was murdered in 2007, is expected to be elevated to the House of Lords.

海伦纽拉夫，其丈夫加里于2007被谋杀，将有望被提拔至英国上议院议员。

The policy was narrowly defeated in the House of Lords on May 11th, but this opposition is expected to be overcome.

5月11日，该政策在上议院以微弱的劣势未得到通过，但是反对应该会被克服。

Earlier this month the Sovereign Grant Bill, which will revolutionise the way the Royal Family is funded was passed by the House of Lords.

这个月早些时候的主权授予条例草案由上议院通过，这将彻底改变皇室受资助的方式。

The previous government introduced a freedom of information act. An overhaul of the House of Lords is under way.

上一届政府实施了信息自由法案，对上议院的详细审查正在进行。

Anthony Lester QC, a Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords and a prominent libel lawyer, hopes to change that.

杰出的诽谤罪律师，自由民主党上议院议员大律师安东尼·莱斯特希望作出改变。