VERB 向(政府官员、委员会委员等)进行游说(或疏通) If you lobby someone such as a member of a government or council, you try to persuade them that a particular law should be changed or that a particular thing should be done.
Carers from all over the UK lobbied Parliament last week to demand a better financial deal... 英国各地的家庭看护人员上周向议会游说,要求改善经济待遇。
Gun control advocates are lobbying hard for new laws... 枪械管制支持者正努力游说通过新法。
The union has attacked the plan and threatened to lobby against it... 工会不但攻击该计划,而且还扬言要游说议员反对它。
It must be terribly frustrating to lobby and get absolutely nowhere. 游说未取得一点结果,一定让人非常沮丧。
N-COUNT 游说团体;活动集团 A lobby is a group of people who represent a particular organization or campaign, and try to persuade a government or council to help or support them.
Agricultural interests are some of the most powerful lobbies in Washington... 农业利益集团是华盛顿最具影响力的游说团体之一。
He set up this lobby of independent producers. 他组织了这个由独立生产商组成的游说团。
...the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, a housing lobby group. 民权律师委员会,一个住房政策游说团体
N-COUNT (旅馆等大型建筑的)门厅,大厅,大堂 In a hotel or other large building, the lobby is the area near the entrance that usually has corridors and staircases leading off it.
I met her in the lobby of the museum. 我在博物馆的前厅遇见了她。
Carers from all over the UK lobbied Parliament last week to demand a better financial deal 英国各地的家庭看护人员上周向议会游说,要求改善经济待遇。
The ecologists lobbied powerfully on the anti-nuclear issue. 生态学家们就反对使用核能问题展开了强有力的游说活动。
Google rivals, including Microsoft Corp., and privacy advocates had lobbied against the deal. 微软(microsoftcorp.)等谷歌的竞争对手及主张保护隐私权的人士纷纷反对该项交易。
A number of non-regional countries were invited to be founder members, an offer rejected by the US, which then lobbied allies, including Australia, South Korea, the UK and other European states, not to join. 一些非亚洲国家也被邀请成为创始成员国。美国拒绝了这一邀请,而后还游说其盟友(包括澳大利亚、韩国、英国和其他欧洲国家)不要加入亚投行。
In fact, registering shell companies has become profitable for states like Delaware and Nevada, which also have lobbied against transparency. 实际上,对游说反对透明的特拉华和内华达等州来说,注册空壳公司已变得有利可图。
Local residents lobbied to have the factory shut down. 当地居民游说议员将该工厂关闭。
Unfortunately for the government, the ecologists lobbied powerfully on the anti-nuclear issue. 对政府来说不幸的是,生态学家们就反核问题进行了有力的游说。
Some policymakers in Beijing have also lobbied for the change because of concerns that by allowing companies to list solely in Hong Kong, Chinese investors cannot benefit from the growth of some of the mainland's fastest-growing enterprises. 北京的一些决策者也为这种改变进行了游说。他们担心,允许企业只在香港上市,中国投资者将无法从某些内地企业的快速增长中获益。
Restaurants lobbied successfully to be exempted from nutritional labeling. 餐厅成功地游说政府,不用标示自己产品的营养成份资讯。
Detroit, which traditionally lobbied against fuel taxes, is suddenly in no position to argue. 而且通常会游说反对燃油税的底特律突然彻底失去了谈判的资本。
They lobbied Watson who, true to form, made an instant decision. 他们在院外阿沃森展开游说,而此人一如往常,立即作出了决定。
Ping An, a local insurance company, had also lobbied to gain control. 中国本土保险公司平安保险(pingan)也曾多方游说,希望获得控股权。
They lobbied on the environmental protection issue. 他们就环境保护问题在议员中进行了游说。
Liberated from death row, the banks have lobbied hard against burdensome regulatory changes. 从死囚牢中释放出来的各银行已经展开了大力游说,反对会给自己带来负担的监管改革。
Companies that install solar panels and benefited from Chinese products have also lobbied against the case. 安装太阳能电池板、受益于中国产品的企业也展开游说,反对本案。
President Obama personally lobbied senior Indian officials when he was here in Delhi last year. 奥巴马总统去年访问新德里时还亲自向印度官员进行了游说。
In April this year, he personally lobbied German parliamentarians in Berlin to back the rescue plan for Greece. 今年4月,特里谢亲临柏林,游说德国国会议员支持为希腊纾困的计划。
She lobbied hard for a woman on the Supreme Court, though pillow-talk had no effect in that case. 她曾在美国最高法院中为一位妇女全力游说,尽管对丈夫的枕边细语在整个案子中毫无作用。
Dick Cheney, the US vice president, has lobbied against the legislation, arguing it tied America's hands in its "war on terror". 美国副总统DickCheney(迪克。切尼)进行了反对该立法的游说活动,他辩解道,该项立法将捆住美国“反恐战”的手脚。
He had lobbied the Treasury to provide more resources, but they had refused. 他曾游说财政部增加经费,但他们拒绝了。
Rival drinks-makers lobbied the government, saying they would lose market share to a juiced-up Coke. 与之竞争的饮料制造商则游说政府,称吞并了果汁业务的可口可乐会夺走他们的市场份额。
Government agencies and nongovernmental organizations lobbied for changes in the law. 政府机构和非政府组织为修改法律进行了游说。
For years the fund has lobbied to have the policy extended to listings in Shanghai and Shenzhen. 多年来,该基金一直在进行游说,希望这一政策扩大到在上海和深圳上市的A股。
The leaders of France, Spain and Italy have by contrast lobbied hard in favour. 与之形成反差的是,法国、西班牙以及意大利的领导人为使该计划获得支持进行了大力游说。
They persistently lobbied the National Commission of Indigenous People with great tenacity. 他们一直努力不懈游说国家原住民委员会。
Lobbied against the proliferation of nuclear arms. 反对核武器扩散而游说。
We lobbied the members of parliament. 我们对国会议员进行了游说。
Beijing promptly lobbied for it to win an Oscar. 北京立即游说让该片竞逐奥斯卡奖。
President George W. Bush immediately signed the legislation, which he has lobbied for vigorously in recent days. 布什总统(GeorgeW.Bush)立刻签署通过了这条法案,此前数日他为通过该法案大量游说。
Friends said the US ambassador to Pakistan, Anne Patterson, had lobbied for their release. 友人透露美国大使安妮·帕特森曾为这些人的保释进行了游说。