lobbying
美 [ˈlɑbi] 
英 [ˈlɒbi]
- v.游说；收买议员；运动通过议案；暗中运动
- n.休息室；门厅；接待室；(表决时分别投票的)投票厅
- 网络游说活动；院外活动；游说集团
词形变化
复数：lobbies 过去分词：lobbied 现在分词：lobbying 同义词
英汉双解
1. | [c] （公共建筑物进口处的）门厅，前厅，大厅a large area inside the entrance of a public building where people can meet and wait |
2. | [c] （英国议会的）民众接待厅(in the British Parliament) a large hall that is open to the public and used for people to meet and talk to Members of Parliament |
3. | [cspv] （就某议题企图影响从政者的）游说团体a group of people who try to influence politicians on a particular issue |
| The gun lobby is/are against any change in the law. 赞同拥有枪支的团体反对作任何法律上的修改。 |
4. | [c][sing] （就某议题企图影响从政者的）游说an organized attempt by a group of people to influence politicians on a particular issue |
| a recent lobby of Parliament by pensioners 领养老金者近来在议会的游说 |
1. | [t][i] ~ (sb) (for/against sth) 游说（从政者或政府）to try to influence a politician or the government and, for example, persuade them to support or oppose a change in the law |
| Farmers will lobby Congress for higher subsidies. 农民将游说国会提高对农业的补贴。 |
| Women's groups are lobbying to get more public money for children. 妇女组织在游说政府，要求增加对儿童的拨款。 |
英汉解释
n. | 2. (英国下院的)会客室,休息室;接待室;(表决时分别投票的)投票厅 3. 〔美国〕(出入议院休息室用收买等手段左右法案的)院外活动集团 |
v. | 1. 〔美国〕(在会议室中)运动议员,收买议员;运动通过议案 |
英英解释
例句
Smith said his company spent more than a year lobbying for regional center status for Federal Way, the site of his project.
史密斯说他为了能让他的项目所在的地方具有“地区中心”的资质，他花了将近一年的时间去说服联邦政府。
Much of that money was spent through entrenched Washington lobbying firms like the Podesta Group and the Franklin Square Group.
大部分开支是通过华盛顿老牌游说公司——比如波德斯塔集团（PodestaGroup）与富兰克林广场集团（FranklinSquareGroup）——花费出去的。
By the time the WTO rules, the American firms lobbying for protection from Chinese imports will doubtless have enjoyed several years of it.
毫无疑问，在WTO做出裁决之前，那些寻求保护以避免中国进口产品影响的公司将享有几年的恩惠。
McCain and Barack Obama have sparred over ties to lobbying firms and financial institutions caught up in the Wall Street turmoil.
麦凯恩与奥巴马已经就各自与跟华尔街危机有瓜葛的游说公司和金融机构的关系进行了交锋。
And I thought, I'm buggered if I'm going to spend the rest of my life lobbying for these crumby governments to do what needs to be done.
我想到，如果我将我的余生用于游说于这些政府我会累死的。
And Wall Street banks are gearing up for a furious lobbying campaign, in an effort to water down some of the reform proposals.
华尔街银行正准备大举游说，以期减轻某些改革提议的推行力度。
It seems irrational to me, but he says it is all down to lobbying by the timber industry.
我觉得这么干是没有逻辑的，不过他说木材业已经开始在进行这方面的游说了。
Fears over employment are one thing; more serious perhaps are exporters' lobbying and the will to see a "stronger" China among the populace.
对就业的担忧是一方面，更重要的或许是出口企业的游说，以及民众希望看到中国“强大起来”的意愿。
The word "lobbying" as a name for these campaigns dates back at least to 18th-century Britain.
这些活动又称为“院外活动”，此一词至少可以追溯到18世纪的英国。
The deal was the result of a marathon weekend session of European leaders -- one that included lobbying calls from U.
周末，欧洲的领导人召开了马拉松式的会议，最终批准了这项计划。
It now has one of the largest media departments of any US company and spends millions on lobbying in Washington.
目前沃尔玛拥有全美公司最大的媒体部门之一，花费上百万美元在华盛顿展开游说。
"The lobbying community is not done . . . We will be fighting any attempt to weaken the bill, " he said.
“说客们不会就此干休…对于任何希望削弱该议案的企图，我们都会反抗。”他说。
By the 1930s it had fallen into disrepute, and an intense lobbying campaign demonized "reefer madness. " In 1937 the U. S.
然而到了1930年代，大麻就已经声名扫地，并有一批人大力活动游说，试图将吸食大麻的「疯狂行为」妖魔化。
White House aides said a pair of trips next week will be followed by a stream of public and private lobbying.
白宫幕僚称，下周奥巴马将展开两次行程，然后进行一系列公开和私下的游说。
American business, judged by attendance at the Indo-US Business Council at least, has also emerged as a lobbying force on India's behalf.
至少从加入印美商会（Indo-USBusinessCouncil）的企业数量来看，美国企业已开始成为一支代表印度利益的游说力量。
In 1992 the board, looking to forge a new image for the company, eased him out as chairman despite his lobbying to stay on a few more years.
虽然他向董事会游说，希望能在现职多待几年，但是一心想为公司塑造新形象的董事会，还是在1992年暗中把他排挤出去，不再担任董事长。
If created, such a body would most likely become a taxpayer-funded lobbying group for higher taxes around the world.
如果成立了这个组织，这个团体最有可能成为一个纳税人资助的反对全球高税收的游说组织。
On some estimates, Mr Thurber says, the total spent on lobbying in Washington is closer to $9 billion a year.
根据某些估计，硕博先生说，每年在华府的游说费用总计接近九十亿美金。
Despite short-sighted industry lobbying and occasional squeals of pain from voters, governments are beginning to favour cleaner cars.
虽然业内有短视者在游说，选民偶尔也会痛苦抱怨，政府政策还是开始向清洁轿车倾斜。
Its primary victims are minority property owners and the poor, who lack the lobbying power of a retail giant or pharmaceutical company.
它最初的牺牲品是少数派的财产所有者和穷人，与零售巨头或者制药公司相比，他们缺乏游说的能力。
Lobbying from big accounting firms, that have been prime beneficiaries of Sarbanes-Oxley, is also likely to keep parts of the law in place.
最初获利于《萨班斯-奥克斯利法》的大型会计公司同样认为该法的部分条文是有必要保留的。
Through a mix of strategic lobbying, oil exploration, direct action and reserve creation, one of you will triumph.
通过一系列的战略游说，石油勘探，直接行动和储备创造，你会胜利的组合。
A Shanghai-based producer of edible oil said the increase followed lobbying by the nation's five big brands.
上海一家食用油生产商说，涨价是在中国五大品牌的游说后获得批准的。
Hollywood is lobbying hard to stop them. It has launched a separate effort to have Congress ban box-office futures.
好莱坞正竭力游说阻止这两家交易所，且已从多方发力推动国会立法禁止票房期货交易。
A former economics professor and electrical engineer, Mr. Ni has given his wife the company reins so he can focus more on industry lobbying.
曾担任经济学教授和电子工程师的倪捷已经将公司的管理权交给了妻子，以便自己能将更多精力放在行业游说上。
Furious lobbying seems to have watered down that proposal.
愤怒的游说集团似乎要给建议书掺水。
Despite problems like lobbying and the excessive party loyalty that Brooks addressed, "it serves us pretty well, " he said.
虽然存在布鲁克斯所提到的类似游说及过度党派忠诚问题，但布林克利表示，“这对我们非常有效。”
To maintain that momentum, the company then joined eight other auto manufacturers lobbying Congress against higher fuel-economy standards.
为了保持这股势头，丰田还联合另外八家汽车制造商到国会展开游说工作以反对提高燃油的经济性标准。
The White House is shying away from an overt lobbying effort to thwart the Iraq resolutions, as it might do more harm than good.
白宫对阻止伊拉克增兵计划的决议不敢公开游说，因为这只会使事情变得更糟而不是更好。
Accused of NWO involvement is the highly secretive international think tank and influential lobbying group known as the Bilderberg Club.
被指控参与NWO的是那高度机密的国际智库和影响力大的游说团体，被称为彼尔德伯格俱乐部；
A first effort, to rank firms on the amount they spend on lobbying, was no use: it just corresponded with the largest firms.
刚开始，它根据各公司政府游说额评级，但用处不大，现在它只跟踪支出最大的大公司。
They should have been stopped by Congress and their regulator. Except that they spent some of their subsidy on a fierce lobbying machine.
二房本该受制于国会和监理机构——可惜它们将部分补贴用于雇佣强劲有力的游说机器。
The numbers are likely to revive complaints that the reforms have been softened too much in the face of lobbying by banks.
这些数字可能会让人重新开始抱怨，在各银行的游说下，巴塞尔银行监管委员会的改革力度减轻了太多。
WPP is not the only company in Washington that has built up its arsenal in the US lobbying industry.
WPP不是华盛顿唯一一家在美国游说行业累积了强大实力的公司。
Banks do not make the list because their balance-sheets are so leveraged that lobbying expenditures are small as a percentage of assets.
银行业并没有出现在这个指数中，这是由于他们财务报表上的债务杠杆使得政府游说的支出在总资产中份额不足百分之一。
As a leading member of the Committee of 100, a Chinese-American lobbying group, he helped to build bridges between the U. S. and China.
作为美籍华人游说团体“百人会”（Committeeof100）的重要成员，他参与了在美中之间搭建桥梁的工作。
Their frustration was echoed by rights groups and others that have been lobbying heavily for the United Nations to approve the treaty.
权益组织和其他组织也表达了他们的失望，这些组织一直以来都在强力游说联合国通过此条约。
After sustained lobbying and a public-relations effort that would be impressive today, an issue of bank notes followed in 1661.
持续不断的游说和公共关系方面做的努力，即便在今日也使人印象深刻，终于在1661年，银行钞票发行了。
Mr Tusk takes a tough line at the top (eg, in a lobbying scandal over a gambling law); but at the grassroots things are murkier.
图斯克图斯克在高层采取了强硬措施（例如，在赌博法律的游说丑闻）；但在基层其实更为阴暗。
But, thanks to uncharacteristically deft lobbying by the left, it has become a symbol of fiscal injustice, as the wealthy collect refunds.
但是多亏了左翼力量的非比寻常的的游说，这种措施已经成为了财政公平的一种象征，高收入者能够得到退税款。
