filibusters

filibusters

美 [ˈfɪlɪˌbʌstər] 　英 [ˈfɪlɪˌbʌstə(r)]

• n.【史】掠夺兵；海盗；〈美〉(用冗长的发言)妨碍会议的议员
• v.〈美〉(因发言冗长)妨碍(会议的进程)；掠夺
• 网络拉布战；阻扰；拉布战术

词形变化

复数：filibusters  现在分词：filibustering  过去式：filibustered  

英汉解释

n.	1. 【史】掠夺兵,暴兵;海盗 2. 〈美〉(用冗长的发言)妨碍会议的议员;会议妨碍行为
v.	1. 〈美〉(因发言冗长)妨碍(会议的进程) 2. 掠夺,侵夺

英英解释

n.	1. a situation in which a politician deliberately delays or prevents a proposal from becoming law by continuing to speak until the end of a debate

例句

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

武装分子，当然是古老的程序法的障碍，可以用来减轻或停止参议院收到的争论和投票。

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，参议员乔治.米切尔竟不得不12次投票来终止阻挠议事。

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

他们降低了曾希望的60位参议员的人数，这允许他们避免被称为阻挠议事的程序块。

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）。

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

现在，在议会开始前，这一记录在两年的时间内的记录是57个否决议案。

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

这届参议院中，共和党领导人已经用了78次，而且，这届参议院还将持续6个月。

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

从动用手枪到采取阻挠议事的行为，下面是国会历史上7次最“伟大”、最奇怪和最富有戏剧性的场面。