filibuster
美 [ˈfɪlɪˌbʌstər] 
英 [ˈfɪlɪˌbʌstə(r)]
- v.〈美〉(因发言冗长)妨碍(会议的进程)；掠夺
- n.（议会中为拖延表决的）冗长演说
- 网络阻挠议事；冗长发言；冗长辩论
词形变化
复数：filibusters 现在分词：filibustering 过去式：filibustered
英汉双解
1. | （议会中为拖延表决的）冗长演说a long speech made in a parliament in order to delay a vote |
英汉解释
n. | 2. 〈美〉(用冗长的发言)妨碍会议的议员;会议妨碍行为 |
v. | |
英英解释
例句
NIA hopes to see Rand Paul filibuster any attempts by the U. S. Senate to raise the ceiling on our national debt.
NIA希望看到保罗阻止美国参议院提高美国国债上限任何企图。
Republicans have the right to filibuster under centuries-old rules that this page has long defended.
长久以来的惯例是，共和党人有阻挠议案通过的权利。
She recently threatened a filibuster to kill legislation that would have increased industry liability in the event of a spill.
她最近曾暗示会阻止针对石油天然气行业的立法，以避免其在此次漏油事件中承担更多责任。
Her support would probably give Mr Obama the 60 votes he needs in the upper chamber to see off a Republican filibuster.
OlympiaSnowe支持的表决有可能会让奥巴马赢得他希望得到的上议院60张的选票，这样以此可以来压制共和党人的阻挠。
He had become a master of evasion: his main response to criticism is to threaten, filibuster and delay.
他已是个回避问题的老手：其回应批评的主要方法是一威胁、二阻挠、三拖延。
Yet today the Senate conducts its business, or not, under the constant threat of a filibuster.
然而，今天在参议院进行其业务，还是不行，下一个拉布持续威胁。
But too often, the Republican leadership in the United States Senate chooses to filibuster our recovery and obstruct our progress.
但大多数时候，参议院的共和党领导层却选择了妨碍和阻挠经济复苏进程。
And Republicans suffered a further setback on Monday in their fight to stop the Democrats winning a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.
共和党人更在阻止民主党人获得议案通过权（亦即参议院多数）这场争斗中承受了进一步的打击。
With the election of Senator Scott Brown, Republican of Massachusetts, Democrats can no longer hold off a Republican filibuster.
马萨诸塞州共和党人ScottBrown当选参议员之后，民主党再也无法抵挡住共和党的阻扰了。
Having lost their supermajority in the Senate, the Democrats resorted to a questionable budget procedure to defeat a filibuster.
由于失去了在参议院中的绝对多数，民主党不得不借助一套值得商榷的预算系统来战胜那些阻碍议事进程的人。
The bill will need several Republican votes to pass, with Democrats already one vote shy of a filibuster-proof majority.
民主党现在离达到“讨论终结”还差一票，要想通过该议案，必须再获得几个共和党参议员的支持。
The reconciliation bill was part of the Democratic leadership's parliamentary manoeuvre to avoid a filibuster in the Senate.
该议案是民主党为在众议会取得领导地位所采取行动的一部分，以避免参议会的阻挠。
The filibuster procedure in the US Senate has been used over many years to prevent decisions on many sensible matters.
多年来，美国参议院的“冗长辩论”（filibuster）程序被用于阻止在很多敏感事情上的决定。
In an attempted filibuster to upset the bill's passage, opposition parties have submitted hundreds of amendments.
反对党试图阻碍该法案通过，提交了数百项修正案。
He had become a master of easion: his main response to criticism is to threaten, filibuster and delay.
他一是个回避问题的老手：其回应批评的主要办法是一威胁、二阻扰、三拖延。
Now, if the Republicans could sustain a filibuster, our health-care plan would be dead on arrival.
这样的话，如果共和党人行使阻挠议事手段，我们的医保计划一送到参议院就会被干掉。
Having failed to overcome the 60-vote hurdle to end a Senate filibuster, Mr Obama watched his $450bn jobs bill grind to a halt last week.
上周，由于未能在参议院获得60票来结束杯葛议事的“冗长辩论”（filibuster）行径，奥巴马眼睁睁地看着自己的4500亿美元就业法案停止推进。
Next week, however, members of the upper legislative house may override the filibuster to support a deeply dangerous idea.
然而，下周参议院可能越过这一程序，来支持一个极为危险的想法。
The result gives the Democrats 60 votes in the Senate, enough to break a filibuster.
这一结果使得民主党人在参议院掌握了60席，足以战胜（通过冗长发言来）阻挠议事的反对党策略。
Organizing or carry out of a filibuster.
为阻挠议事进行组织。
one that is big enough to make it extremely hard for the Republicans to block legislation by use of the filibuster.
民主党人在两院占有的比例大到足够可以使共和党人想通过议事阻挠来阻止立法变得极其困难。
Some frustrated Democrats have even suggested doing away with the filibuster, a much bigger step towards simple majority rule.
一些被阻挠过的民主党议员甚至曾建议废除“阻挠议事策略”，更加大刀阔斧地向简单多数法则的确立推进。
Weekly Address: President Obama Says GOP Senate Leadership Choosing to "Filibuster Our Recovery and Obstruct Our Progress"
每周电视讲话：奥巴马总统称共和党参议院领导层选择“妨碍和阻挠经济复苏进程”
If all of them choose to support a filibuster, then you take it to the American people and show the obstructionists for what they are.
如果他们人人都选择支持国会拖延方案，那么你可以向美国人民展示这些阻碍者到底是什么人。
The filibuster is an incomprehensible device of government.
作为一种政府的手段，阻挠议事的行动非常难以理解。
NDP MPs will need to start saving their breath if they hope to stave off privatisation with a filibuster.
新民主党议员如果希望通过演讲来暂时阻止私有化，那么他们需要开始休养生息了。
In theory, Republicans could mount a filibuster, but blocking a judge is not like blocking a law.
理论上，共和党可以为这份名单设置障碍，但是，妨碍最高法官候选名单的通过并不像阻碍一项法律的通过。
The response is the filibuster and, as my colleague James Fallows has so aptly pointed out, the media myth of "false equivalence. "
然而这一呼唤的反应却是议事的阻扰和，如我同事詹姆斯·法洛斯巧妙地指出的，媒体“假均等”的谎言。
A bathroom break at four in the morning terminated the senator's filibuster and his motion was defeated.
一个浴室在凌晨4点钟时的损坏，终于停止了该参议员的阻挠议案通过的行动，于是他的行动就宣告失败。
The procedural vote in the Senate last week on financial reform did more than end a Republican filibuster.
上周参议院关于金融改革的程序投票最后只不过是一场共和党人的喋喋不休的陈辞而已。
It would take just one Republican to give Mr. Reid the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster and open debate.
目前还需要再有一名共和党人支持，Reid才能获得通过议案所需的60张选票并展开讨论。
In particular, tax increases at the federal level don't require a two- thirds majority, and can in some cases bypass the filibuster.
特别是在联邦政府层面上，增税并不需要三分之二的多数通过，有些情况下可以绕过这样的阻扰。
Until it is filled, the Democrats will lack the crucial 60 senators needed to break a filibuster.
在填够坐席之前，民主党人还需关键的60个席位来挫败阻碍议案通过的行动。
Of course, these pages were less eager to abolish the filibuster when the idea was floated by the Republicans in 2005, but put that aside.
当然，当共和党在2005年首次提出那问题的时候，论战并不急于废除冗长的政治演说陋习，不过这是后话。
Confirmation vote was delayed by a filibuster.
确认投票因为冗长演说而被推迟。
American senators have resorted to filibusters now and again for 170 years (click left for table).
在170年间，美国的参议员时不时地诉诸filibuster（点击左图）。
But they need 60 votes (out of 100) in the Senate to get past a Republican filibuster, and they do not have them.
但他们需要参议院的60张赞同票（总票数100张），才能力排共和党人的阻挠，但他们现在并没有那么多选票。
Originally senators had actually talk when they want a filibuster.
原来参议员实际上当在冗长演说的时候会进行谈话。
The senate allows for an unlimited debate in order to filibuster something, a bill, a vote, whatever.
参议院允许为了阻挠议事的一个法案，一次投票，不管是什么的无限争论。
For Abdul - muta filibuster the final decision on January 12 next year, in federal court.
对阿卜杜勒-穆塔拉布的最终判决将于明年1月12日在联邦法院进行。
