filibuster

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变形

复数：filibusters过去式：filibustered过去分词：filibustered现在分词：filibustering第三人称单数：filibusters

英英释义

filibuster[ 'filibʌstə ]

a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes

同义词：filibusterer

a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches

v.obstruct deliberately by delaying; of legislation

用法：

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

The democrats organized a filibuster in the senate.
民主党党员在参议院上组织了阻挠议事。

用作动词(v.)

Supporters of the law filibustered to prevent it from being revised.
法律的支持者阻碍议案通过，以防法律被修改。

权威例句

Filibuster

Filibuster Reform in the Senate, 1913-17

Filibuster Reform in the Senate, 1913–1917

Filibuster:Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate

Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate

Americans’ Attitudes About the Senate Filibuster

List of Figures : Filibuster Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate

The Judicial Filibuster, the Median Senator, and the Countermajoritarian Difficulty

Chapter 11. Conclusion : Filibuster Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate

Chapter 8. Obstruction and Institutional Change : Filibuster Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate

同义词：sea wolf,prey upon,pillage,corsair

同根词：filibusterer,filibuster

英语词源：

filibuster

filibuster: [16] Filibuster and freebooter [16] are doublets: that is to say, they come from the same ultimate source, but have subsequently diverged. Freebooter ‘pirate’ was borrowed from Dutch vrijbuiter, a compound formed from vrij ‘free’ and buiter ‘plunderer’ (this was a derivative of buit ‘loot’, to which English booty is related).But English was not the only language to adopt it; French wanted it too, but mangled it somewhat in the borrowing, to flibustier. It was then handed on to Spanish, as filibustero. It is not clear where the 16th-century English use of the word with an l spelling rather than an r spelling (which is recorded in only one text) comes from. The French form flibustier was borrowed towards the end of the 18th century, and presentday filibuster came from the Spanish form in the mid-19th century.The use of the term for ‘obstructing a legislature with an overlong speech’ (which has now virtually obliterated its former semantic equivalence to freebooter) originated in the USA in the 1880s.=> booty, free, freebooter

filibuster (n.)

1580s, flibutor "pirate," especially, in history, "West Indian buccaneer of the 17th century" (mainly French, Dutch, and English adventurers), probably ultimately from Dutch vrijbueter (now vrijbuiter) "freebooter," a word which was used of pirates in the West Indies in Spanish (filibustero) and French (flibustier, earlier fribustier) forms. See freebooter. According to Century Dictionary, the spread of the word is owing to a Dutch work ("De Americaensche Zee-Roovers," 1678) "written by a bucaneer named John Oexmelin, otherwise Exquemelin or Esquemeling, and translated into French and Spanish, and subsequently into English (1684)." Spanish inserted the -i- in the first syllable; French is responsible for the -s-, inserted but not originally pronounced, "a common fact in 17th century F[rench], after the analogy of words in which an original s was retained in spelling, though it had become silent in pronunciation" [Century Dictionary]. In American English, from 1851 in reference to lawless military adventurers from the U.S. who tried to overthrow Central American governments. The major expeditions were those of Narciso Lopez of New Orleans against Cuba (1850-51) and by William Walker of California against the Mexican state of Sonora (1853-54) and against Nicaragua (1855-58).

FILIBUSTERING is a term lately imported from the Spanish, yet destined, it would seem, to occupy an important place in our vocabulary. In its etymological import it is nearly synonymous with piracy. It is commonly employed, however, to denote an idea peculiar to the modern progress, and which may be defined as the right and practice of private war, or the claim of individuals to engage in foreign hostilities aside from, and even in opposition to the government with which they are in political membership. ["Harper's New Monthly Magazine," January 1853]

The noun in the legislative sense is not in Bartlett (1859) and seems not to have been in use in U.S. legislative writing before 1865 (filibustering in this sense is from 1861). Probably the extension in sense is because obstructionist legislators "pirated" debate or overthrew the usual order of authority. Originally of the senator who led it; the maneuver itself so called by 1893. Not technically restricted to U.S. Senate, but that's where the strategy works best. [The 1853 use of filibustering by U.S. Rep. Albert G. Brown of Mississippi reported in the "Congressional Globe" and cited in the OED does not refer to legislative obstruction, merely to national policy toward Cuba.]

filibuster (v.)

1853 in the freebooting sense, from filibuster (n.). Legislative sense is from 1861. Related: Filibustered; filibustering.

造句：

1. If all of them choose to support a filibuster, then you take it to the American people and show the obstructionists for what they are.

如果他们人人都选择支持国会拖延方案，那么你可以向美国人民展示这些阻碍者到底是什么人。

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2. Focus now shifts to the Senate, where questions linger about whether Democrats have nailed down enough support from the handful of Republicans needed to overcome a likely filibuster.

目前关注重点转向参议院，问题仍旧是民主党人是否已从几个共和党成员处取得足够支持，以便克服可能产生的阻挠。

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3. He had become a master of evasion: his main response to criticism is to threaten, filibuster and delay.

他已是个回避问题的老手：其回应批评的主要方法是一威胁、二阻挠、三拖延。

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4. Of course, these pages were less eager to abolish the filibuster when the idea was floated by the Republicans in 2005, but put that aside.

当然，当共和党在2005年首次提出那问题的时候，论战并不急于废除冗长的政治演说陋习，不过这是后话。

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5. The Democrats lack the 60 votes that would enable them to overcome any threat of a Republican filibuster in the 100-member Senate as they did in the House.

在100名参议员组成的参议院，要像在众议院那样，化解共和党人阻碍议案通过的威胁，民主党需要获得60张选票的支持。

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6. The Senate, which remained in session over the weekend because of the crisis, voted on a mainly procedural issue yesterday to end a Republican filibuster on the subject.

参议院在危机开始后一直处于分裂状态，他们昨天为了结束一位共和党议员的马拉松演说投票通过的一个程序议案。

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7. The Republican leader, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, has privately urged the conservatives not to filibuster, without success, say three people familiar with the talks.

三名知情人透露，共和党领袖，肯塔基州参议员米契·康奈尔私下要求保守派不要阻碍议案的通过，但没有成功。

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8. The Republican leader, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, has privately urged the conservatives not to filibuster, without success, say three people familiar with the talks.

三名知情人透露，共和党领袖，肯塔基州参议员米契·康奈尔私下要求保守派不要阻碍议案的通过，但没有成功。

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