impeachment
impeachment 英 [ɪm'pi:tʃmənt] 美 [ɪmˈpitʃmənt]
n. 弹劾；控告；怀疑；指摘
名词复数:impeachments
- Though it might be more fun if it meant "canning peaches for the winter," impeachment is actually a formal document accusing a public official with misconduct.
- 请先登录
- n. 弹劾；控告；怀疑；指摘
-
1. One Republican senator who was opposed to impeachment kept us informed of what was going on among his colleagues.
一名反对弹劾的共和党参议员不断通知我们，他的同僚们到底在干什么。
-
2. One Republican committee chairman was plainly distraught when he told a White House aide that he didn’t want to vote for impeachment but he would lose his chairmanship if he voted against it.
一个任委员会主席的共和党人简直就是发了狂，他对一名白宫助手说，他并不想投票支持弹劾，但如果他投反对票就会失去主席的职位。
-
3. In the context of this strategy, the Hyde committees vote against a censure resolution was as important as its votes for the impeachment articles.
在这一策略的背景下，海德及其领导的司法委员会投票反对公开谴责的解决方法，这就如同投票支持弹劾条款一样重要。
- impeachment (n.) late 14c., enpechement "accusation, charge," from Old French empeechement "difficulty, hindrance; (legal) impeachment," from empeechier "to hinder, impede" (see impeach). As a judicial proceeding on charges of maladministration against a public official, from 1640s.
- 请先登录
0 个回复