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释义
[法]上议院；上院；
英英释义
Upper house
An upper house, often called a senate, is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house.Bicameralism (1997) by George Tsebelis
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用作名词(n.)
He was nominated to the Upper House.
他被任命为上议院议员。
Each province has equal representation in the upper chamber.
每一个行政区在上议院中都具有平等的权利。
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1. Two Senators represent each state in the Upper House.
两位参议员在上议院各代表一个州。
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2. The upper house is called the Senate which has 100 seats equally distributed among the four provinces of Pakistan.
上议院被称为参议院，拥有100个席位，平均分配给巴基斯坦的四个州。
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3. Under Italy's 2005 electoral law only a convincing victory can deliver an outright majority in the upper house. This appears to be exactly what Mr Berlusconi has obtained.
意大利2005年通过的选举法规定，只有获得公认的和令人信服的的胜利才能在上院中取得绝对优势大多数。
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4. Mr Tanigaki vows to lead the party to victory in upper-house elections next summer, but that looks unlikely.
谷垣祯一发誓领导自民党在明年夏天的上议院选举中取得胜利，但是这看起来不大可能。
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5. The opposition, led by the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), threatens to use its upper-house majority to block bills needed to finance next year's budget.
由自民党(LDP)领导的反对派威胁使用上议院的多数席位阻碍明年财政预算的通过。
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6. The DPJ's manifesto for the upper-house elections bore no mention of the levy.
DPJ的上议院选举宣言只字不提这项税收。
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7. The election will leave the Greens with the balance of power in the Senate, the upper house, from mid-2011.
本次选举将使绿党从2011年中期开始在参院和上院的权力制衡体系中占有一席之地。
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8. The sleepy upper house, which is elected by members of provincial assemblies, usually attracts outsiders' attention just once a year, when it hosts the national spelling contest.
由各省众议院选出的上院往往很冷清，人们一年只关注它一次，也就是当它举办全国拼字比赛时。
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9. Mrs Merkel's coalition might lose control of the state legislature and Germany's upper house.
默克尔夫人的联盟可能失去对州议会和德国上议院的控制。
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10. The Senate, the upper house, is expected to endorse it next month, marking a turning point for Australia, which emits more carbon per person than any other country in the developed world.
作为上议院的参议院将于下个月支持该计划，这在澳大利亚这个发达国家中人均碳排放量最大的国家标志着一个转折点。
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11. If he resists, the LDP might censure him in the upper house, producing a similar outcome.
如果他加以拒绝，自民党(ldp)也许会在上议院对他横加指责，达到类似的结果。
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12. The bill to increase the minimum retirement age from 60 to 62 passed France's lower house of parliament earlier this month and the upper house is set to approve it in early October.
这个把最低退休年龄从60岁提高到62岁的法案本月早些时候在法国众议院获得通过。 参议院定于十月初通过这项法案。
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13. When, ahead of upper-house elections last year, Mr Kan unexpectedly discussed a tax increase, voters punished the DPJ at the ballot box.
去年上议院选举前，菅直人先生突然提到提高消费税的问题，选民在投票时惩罚了DPJ。
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14. In Australia the 507, 600 people of Tasmania have the same weight in the upper house as the 7m who live in New South Wales.
在澳大利亚，塔斯马尼亚的507,600人在上院拥有和新南威尔士7百万人相同的权重。
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15. It depends on unelected life senators for its majority in the upper house and so is vulnerable to even a small rebellion on its own side.
它依赖不经选举的终身参议员维持在参议员的多数，因此也难以抵挡自己一方的小小倒戈。
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16. Countries as diverse as Australia and Switzerland function smoothly enough with an elected upper house.
在澳大利亚和瑞士这样的多元化国家，参院由选举产生，运转良好。
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17. Months ago, gaining a majority in the upper house to add to its lower-house one was considered a safe bet.
数月之前，通过取得上议院主要席位来增加下议院席位被视为一种保守的赌注。
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18. All it had done since winning control of the Diet's upper house in July 2007 had been to block the LDP.
而自从于2007年7月赢得国会上议院控制权后，它所做的都是为阻挡自民党。
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19. Five years ago, my husband and I found ourselves faced with the opportunity to own a "fixer-upper" house, with the potential to make a profit if we ever decided to sell it.
五年前，我和我的丈夫有了一个拥有一栋“待修”房子的机会，而且如果我们要卖掉它的话可能会赚钱。
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20. The defeat in NRW also strips Mrs Merkel's government of its majority in the Bundesrat, the upper house of the legislature, which represents the states.
北威州选举失利同时剥夺了默克尔联邦参议院多数席位的优势，而联邦参议院的议员是各州的代表，是最高的立法机构。
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21. The next election to the House of Councillors (the upper house) is due in mid-2010.
下一届参议院（上议院）的选举定于2010年中期。
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22. The defeat means that Mrs Merkel will also lose her majority in the Bundesrat, Germany's upper house.
这次失败意味着默克尔将在德国联邦上院失去多数地位。
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23. The Conservatives have had a clear policy in favour of a largely elected upper house for the past five years, even if plenty of their MPs feel uneasy about it.
保守党过去五年清晰传达了自己在这方面的态度，即使很多下院议员对此问题感到不安。
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24. The French parliament's upper house yesterday backed a proposal to raise the minimum age at which women may marry from 15 to 18.
法国国会参议院日前通过了一项有关提高该国女性法定婚龄的提案。该提案认为，女性法定婚龄应由目前的15岁提高到18岁。
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25. Proposed constitutional changes to the role of the upper house of parliament or the monarchy's male primogeniture rule have been continually postponed because they are so thorny.
涉及上议院职能及皇室长子继承制的宪改提议持续遭到搁置，原因是它们太过于敏感。
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26. Japan's new prime minister, Naoto Kan, has pushed a debate about raising the consumption tax to the top of the campaign for the upper house of parliament.
日本的新任首相菅直人推动了在上议院竞选活动中关于提高消费税率的讨论。
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27. Japan's new prime minister, Naoto Kan, has pushed a debate about raising the consumption tax to the top of the campaign for the upper house of parliament.
日本的新任首相菅直人推动了在上议院竞选活动中关于提高消费税率的讨论。
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