单词tea party
n.: (下午) 茶会；茶话会；在美国各地抗议高额税收
网络: 茶党；茶宴；茶叶党
（午后的）茶会，茶话会:
a social event at which people eat cake, drink tea, etc. in the afternoon
茶党,指2009年,在美国各地抗议高额税收,提倡缩减政府债务和联邦预算赤字的美国居民;该词来源于波士顿倾茶事件(1773年,美国波士顿居民因反对英国殖民者收取高额茶税,而将之全部倾倒入波士顿港);一说“Tea”一词为“tax enough already(税已经够高了)”的首字母缩写词
(下午) 茶会; 茶话会
复数：tea parties
The public is not going to be fooled once it sees what the Republicans, pushed by Tea Party members, were really holding out for.
一旦弄明白这些得到茶党支持的共和党人的真实用意，公众就不会那么容易被这群家伙们忽悠的。
He isn"t running as an iconoclast on the right but as a return to soft-spoken moderation at a time of tea-party fervor.
在茶党运动开展得如火如荼之际，洪博培的参选并非作为右翼中的反传统派，而是回归到温文尔雅的中庸派。
Palin is a favorite of the Tea Party movement, and many carried homemade signs urging her to run for president in 2012.
佩林是茶党运动的一个宠儿，许多人携带着自制的标语敦促她在2012年竞选总统。
He searched that on Google and came up with nothing but news of political rallies and links to a Memphis tea party organization.
罗伯森立马回家谷歌了一下，但弹出的没有别的只有孟菲斯茶党团体的政治集会的新闻和一些链接。
Much like the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street"s message has gotten wrapped up in stereotypes.
与茶党相似的是，占领华尔街运动的意义也没免于俗套。
The tea-party movement has been pushing conservative candidates to sign up to its goal of repealing the president"s bill.
茶党运动已经推举出了保守派候选人来完成他们推翻总统法案的目标。
We are planning a tea party to celebrate Dr. Lear"s fiftieth anniversary of his medical teaching and of course we want you and Tom to come.
我们打算举行一次茶话会祝贺李尔博士从事医学教学工作五十周年，当然希望您和汤姆参加。
We have people forming a tea party movement and all this kind of fervor that I have never heard before in my seventy-five years of life.
我们使人民形成了茶党运动以及所有这类的疯狂举动，这是我活了七十五岁从来没听说过的。
Write to the dean of your college"s Prof. wang to invite him to a tea party for the retirement of an old teacher, Mr.
向你的学院院长王教授写一封邀请函，请他参加一位老教师――韩老师的退休茶会。
This provoked the Boston Tea Party incidents, which was one of the factors that eventually touched off the War of Independence.
从而挑起了波士顿茶党案事件，这一事件成为最终触发独立战争的因素之一。