英语释义

• the government building in Washington where the United States Senate and the House of Representatives meet

• the federal government of the United States

片语

CAPITOL SQUARE卡尔顿广场酒店

capitol hill美国国会；美国国会山

Capitol College首府学院

Texas Capitol国会大厦

Brazil Capitol巴西国会大厦

Capitol PunishmentCapitol Punishment. The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America’s Most Notorious Lobbyist is a non-fiction 300-page memoir by former American lobbyist Jack Abramoff, published by WNDbooks in November 2011.

Argentina Capitol阿根廷国会大厦

EMI Capitol金牌大风

CUBAN CAPITOL首都古巴

英汉例句

• Boldly in February 2000 she marched into Washington and up the Capitol steps, announcing that she was going to sweep the scoundrels away as thoroughly as leaves from her porch.

  2000年2月，她行进到华盛顿，登上国会大厦的台阶，大胆宣布她要像清扫她家门前的落叶一样，把那些坏蛋都清除出去。

• Each year, it takes place in a grand Capitol Hill auditorium full of members of Congress and a hundred or so Washington notables.

  每年，颁奖仪式都在宏伟的国会礼堂举行，礼堂里坐满了国会议员和一百多个华盛顿知名人士。

• Wilsker has an office on Capitol Hill, but he conducts almost all of his business at his home 40 kilometers away.

  维尔斯克本人在国会山有一个办公室，但是他几乎在40公里以外的家中处理所有业务。

• As Tuesday approaches, when Obama stands outside the Capitol to take the oath of office, experts expect anger about the new President to spike. But they don「t expect it to go away.

  随着周二的临近，当奥巴马站在国会大厦外发表就职宣誓时，专家们期望对新任总统的愤怒能得到抑制，但不指望它消失。

• Agreement was reached only after several days of horse-trading that caused dramatic scenes in the Capitol as Obama and his top staff urged the Senate to move the legislation forward.

  这项议案是刚刚达成共识的，期间还发生了戏剧性的一幕，几天的讨价还价导致奥巴马和他的首席幕僚在国会大厦催促参议院迅速推进相关立法。

• Recently, one of the reporters covering Capitol Hill stopped me on the way to my office and mentioned that she had enjoyed reading my first book.

  最近，一个报道国会活动的记者在我去办公室的路上叫住了我，在谈话中，她提到很喜欢我的第一本书。

• After the White House meeting, Boehner and Reid met again, privately, at the U.S. Capitol to try to craft a plan that could win enough votes to be approved by Congress.

  白宫会议之后，贝纳和里德在美国国会大厦又私下会面，试图拟定一个能赢得足够多票数从而获得国会批準的方案。

• The Capitol is where Congress meets and where presidents are sworn into office.

  国会大厦是美国参众两院召开会议和总统宣誓就职的地方。

• Harrison spoke for more than one and a half hours. He gave the speech outside, on the front steps of the Capitol building.

  哈里森站在国会大厦外面的第一个台阶上发表了长达一个半小时的就职演说。

• And Congress will salute him in the Capitol Rotunda, where his body once lay in state on a pine board bier, which we have also saved for 144 years.

  在他的遗体曾经安放过的国会圆形大厅里，国会议员们将向他致敬，而他那时躺过的松木灵柩，亦已被保存了144年。

• This week on our program, we visit Washington」s new Capitol Visitor Center and the newly reopened National Museum of American History.

  本周，我们去参观华盛顿新的国会大厦游客中心和刚刚重新开放的美国国家历史博物馆。

• And even all that cash failed to get the thing built on time: the east front of the Capitol was an ugly construction site for four years longer than scheduled.

  甚至所有这些钱还不能按时得到要建的东西：国会大厦东面是一个比预计长了四年的丑陋的施工现场。

• In March his aides let slip that he would make a big announcement during a stop at the state Capitol in Atlanta, Georgia, only to retract the whole plan for reasons that still remain opaque.

  三月份他的助手们无意中透露过，他将会在佐治亚州亚特兰大州议会厅逗留期间做一重大宣布：由于各种仍保密的原因要取消整个竞选计划。

相似词

statehouse州议会的议场；州议会大厦