lobby

单词音标

lobby音标[\'lɒbi]

汉语翻译

n. 大厅, 休息室, 游说议员者

vi. 游说议员, 游说

vt. 游说

【法】 休息室, 下议院民众接待室, 院外活动集团

词型变化

名词:lobbyer名词复数:lobbies动词过去式:lobbied过去分词:lobbied现在分词:lobbying第三人称单数:lobbies

英语解释

名词 lobby:

a large entrance or reception room or area

同义词：anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, hall, foyer, vestibule

the people who support some common cause or business or principle or sectional interest

a group of people who try actively to influence legislation

同义词：pressure group, third house

动词 lobby:

detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors

同义词：buttonhole

例句

The film star held court in the hotel lobby.

这位电影明星在旅馆的大厅里接见了影迷。

A lobby or an anteroom, as of a theater or hotel.

休息室，候客室如戏院或旅馆的休息室或接待室

I waited for her in the lobby of theatre yesterday.

昨天我在戏院的大厅等她。

The anti-nuclear lobby is becoming stronger.

向议员游说的反核群众声势渐强。

详细解释

lob.by

n.（名词）

【复数】 lob.bies

A hall, foyer, or waiting room at or near the entrance to a building, such as a hotel or theater.

门厅：靠接旅馆或剧院等建筑入口处的大厅、门厅或休息室

A public room next to the assembly chamber of a legislative body.

休息室：立法机构集会大厅边上的公共活动室

A group of persons engaged in trying to influence legislators or other public officials in favor of a specific cause:

游说团：为了某特定目标而努力影响立法者或其他官员的一群人：

例句：

the banking lobby; the labor lobby.

银行游说团；劳工游说团

v.（动词）

lob.bied,lob.by.ing,lob.bies

v.intr.（不及物动词）

To try to influence the thinking of legislators or other public officials for or against a specific cause:

游说：为了支持或抵制某项特定目标而努力影响立法者或其他官员的想法：

例句：

lobbying for stronger environmental safeguards; lobbied against the proliferation of nuclear arms.

为加强环境保护而游说；反对核武器扩散而游说

v.tr.（及物动词）

To try to influence public officials on behalf of or against (proposed legislation, for example):

游说：为支持或反对…（如立法提案）而试图影响官员：

例句：

lobbied the bill through Congress; lobbied the bill to a negative vote.

游说国会通过提案；游说否决提案

To try to influence (an official) to take a desired action.

陈情：试图努力影响（官员）采取有利行动

来源：

Medieval Latin lobia [monastic cloister]

中世纪拉丁语 lobia [修道院]

[of Germanic origin]

[源于日耳曼语]

【引伸】

lob.byer 或

lob.byist

n.（名词）

lob.byism

n.（名词）