filibuster
filibuster 英 [ˈfɪlɪbʌstə(r)] 美 [ˈfɪləˌbʌstɚ]
n. 海盗；暴兵，掠夺兵；阻挠议事的议员；阻挠议事的行动 vt. 阻碍议案通过 vi. 掠夺；阻饶议事
进行时:filibustering 过去式:filibustered 过去分词:filibustered 第三人称单数:filibusters 名词复数:filibusters
- As a verb, filibuster means "to obstruct legislation by talking at great length." As a noun, it can refer to that oppositional speech. "The Senator prevented a vote on the bill by reading the dictionary from aardvark to zyzzyva."
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- n. 海盗；暴兵，掠夺兵；阻挠议事的议员；阻挠议事的行动
- vt. 阻碍议案通过
- vi. 掠夺；阻饶议事
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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. 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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3. 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。
- 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.
- filibuster (v.) 1853 in the freebooting sense, from filibuster (n.). Legislative sense is from 1861. Related: Filibustered; filibustering.
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