lobby

单词lobby

基本解释

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: 进行游说；疏通；被游说的

权威解释

• （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

• （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

• （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

• （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

• 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

英汉解释

• 向公众揭示

• 游说

• 暗中运动

• 〔美国〕(在会议室中)运动议员,收买议员;运动通过议案

• 分牧区

• 〔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

• (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

• 门廊,门厅,过厅

词性分析

• 复数：lobbies

• 过去分词：lobbied

• 现在分词：lobbying

单词搭配

• adj.+n.:

  powerful lobby

• v.+n.:

  lobby government,lobby Congress

同义词

n.atriumentrance hallfactionfoyerginger groupv.apply pressurepetitionpromotepull stringspush

例句

• Lobbied by congressmen, their procurement officials have made it difficult or impossible for foreign components to be part of a bid.

  在国会议员的游说下，环保局及地方采购官员令外国零件很难甚至无法参与投标。

• Ms. Krawcheck lobbied to help investors recover at least some losses, arguing that they were among Smith Barney"s best clients.

  克劳切克一直游说，要求帮助投资者收回至少部分损失，称他们都是美邦的最佳客户。

• The medical professor even lobbied for the compound to be considered a vitamin due to its major health potential.

  由于该成分有很大的助健康潜能，医学教授甚至想把它归类于维生素。

• Companies including Wal-Mart and Tesco lobbied hard to be allowed into a market dominated by 9m "mom and pop" corner stores.

  包括沃尔玛（Wal-Mart）和特易购（Tesco）在内的公司大力游说，试图获准进入印度市场。目前，印度市场上占据支配地位的是900万家“夫妻老婆”店。

• Several people lobbied for "green, " which "designates environmental concern, " but the term has been around for years, he said.

  还有几名评委倾向于“green（绿色）”一词，但这个代表人们对环境关切的词语已流行多年。

• She lobbied hard for a woman on the Supreme Court, though pillow-talk had no effect in that case.

  她为一名妇女在最高法庭上努力游说众人，虽然在那个案子中，即使吹枕边风福特也帮不上忙。

• The East Germans, whose government had lobbied the Soviet Union to punish the restive Poles, did not.

  而游说苏联，要求处罚倔强的波兰人的东德则没有改变。

• The banks lobbied against such a step, fearing it would expose big holes in their balance sheets.

  银行展开游说，希望不要采取这条措施，担心此举将会暴露出它们资产负债表上的巨大漏洞。

• South Africa has openly lobbied for one of its own, former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel.

  南非公开为自己的候选人、前财政部长曼纽尔（TrevorManuel）拉选票。

• They have lobbied too, to be allowed to cheat their customers, by changing the rules on provenance.

  超市还通过游说改变了对商品出处的规定，这样超市就可以公然欺骗顾客。