n. (公共建筑物进口处的)门厅,前厅,大厅; (英国议会的)民众接待厅; (就某问题企图影响从政者的)游说团体 v. 游说(从政者或政府) lobby的第三人称单数和复数
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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。
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。
The negotiations pose the next battleground in a decades-long fight. The American textile industry consistently lobbies for the trade status of garments to be determined by where the material was made, not just where garments were sewn. 相关谈判为这场长达几十年的争斗开辟了另一个战场。美国纺织业一直在开展游说活动,希望服装的贸易地位由原材料的产地决定,而不仅仅是缝制成衣的地点。
The Business Roundtable, which lobbies for corporate America, urged both parties to support the legislation. 代表美国企业游说的商业圆桌会议(BusinessRoundtable)敦促两党支持该法案。
The design of a clear navigation system for lobbies, atria and common areas, enables visual communication as well as access through the cores, ensuring fully accessible environment for all users. 心房和公共场所,为大堂清晰的导航系统的设计,使视觉传播以及通过内核访问,以确保为所有用户完全无障碍的环境。
I enter and leave public parks, libraries, the lobbies of skyscrapers, and movie houses. I stay in no place for very long. 我会进出于公园、图书馆、摩天大楼和电影院,我也可以在不知名的什么地方呆上很久。
It will bring sweeping cuts to tariffs on manufactured goods but there were large exemptions for agricultural products after Seoul came under pressure from farming lobbies. 这项自由贸易协定将全面削减制成品关税,但在韩方受到农业游说集团的压力后,对农产品将有较大的豁免。
Fixed an error that prevented players in online lobbies from chatting globally after sending private messages to other players. 修正错误以防止玩家在线上大厅传送私人讯息给其他玩家后变成与所有人交谈。
These are also the least upsetting to the interests of powerful lobbies, particularly in finance. 对于强大的游说集团,特别是在金融行业,这也是对最不会影响到他们利益的做法。
Truth and justice know no lobbies, no politics 真相和正义没有游说团和政治权术
Theatre lobbies were filled with a vociferous crowd during the intermission. 幕间休息时,剧场游说者总是充斥在嘈杂的人群中。
Whirring air conditioners, fuzzy-sounding speakers and nearby noisy lobbies were obscuring his carefully crafted sound effects. 开枪空调器,模糊测扬声器及附近嘈杂大堂被遮盖了他精心设计音响效果。
Bank branches in Hong Kong gave access to specialist advisers and were often designed like stylish hotel lobbies with interactive TV walls. 香港的银行分支机构提供专业顾问,其设计往往像富丽堂皇的酒店大堂,并且配备了交互式电视幕墙。
The ground level of towers contain public functions, lobbies and parking entrances. 塔楼的首层是公共功能、门厅及停车场入口。
Too many lobbies have an interest in keeping the system as it is. 太多的院外活动团体希望维持现状来获取利益。
There are pretty strong, mostly Europe-based, lobbies who oppose their use in Sub-Saharan Africa. 有一些相当强大的、基本上是来自欧洲的游说活动反对在撒哈拉以南非洲使用转基因技术。
Online lobbies have been renamed. 在线大厅已经重新命名。
To do this, she has used the sunken lobbies, with their large expanse of glass, to create a surreal image of the cityscape as it passes by. 为了做到这一点,她设计了下沉的大厅,大厅内采用大面积玻璃,创造了超现实的城市形象。
Several of the destroyed works had been displayed in the Twin Towers public lobbies and plazas. 有一些受毁的艺术品在双子城的大厅和广场进行了展览。
Do not interfere with prices and wages; and above all avoid doing anything that wittingly or unwittingly strengthens business, labour or agricultural lobbies. 不要干预价格和薪资;最重要的是,要避免有意或无意地增强企业、劳动者或农业游说团体的权力。
It should not base its interests on traditional lobbies and pressures. 它不应将其利益建立在传统的游说和压力基础上。
Worthwhile inventions cannot find support against existing lobbies and new techniques are overlooked. 有价值的发明没能获得游说联合会的支持,新科技被忽略。
The National Foreign Trade Council, a US business group that lobbies for free trade, urged the US Congress not to impose tariffs on imports from countries such as China and India that have agreed only to slow emissions growth, not to cut it. 主张自由贸易的美国商业组织美国对外贸易委员会(nftc)敦促美国国会不要对从中国和印度等国进口的产品征收关税,这些国家只同意减缓排放增长,而不是减少排放总量。
The protectionist lobbies that have wreaked havoc during past economic downturns are weaker or more ambivalent this time round. 在过去几次经济衰退期间曾造成严重破坏的保护主义游说活动,这次势力有所减弱,或者态度变得更加模棱两可。
In the west, regulations have been calibrated and recalibrated over the years after struggles between consumer advocates and business lobbies. 在西方,经过消费者利益维权者和企业游说团体的长期斗争,规章制度经受了校准与再校准。
In the US, it is not just industry lobbies who complain about a cheap renminbi. 在美国,抱怨人民币汇率过低的,已不只限于产业游说团体。
There are lobbies out there that will fight you on every choice you make. 从大厅到这里你们为了选择做斗争。
But some observers and participants stressed that stark divisions remained among different participants and lobbies in the talks. 然而,一些观察家和与会人士强调,参与谈判的各方与游说者依然存在严重分歧。
Even as they try to shape pending regulations, business lobbies are also looking beyond President Bush. 即时他们试图完善未觉的规章,商业界的游说团体然希望超越布什总统。
But they deal with well-heeled lobbies every day. 但是他们每天都要与这些穿着考究的游说人员打交道。
Even in hotel lobbies, thieves can be lurking. 就连宾馆休息厅内,小偷们也许在潜伏中。