英语释义

1. the house of more restricted membership in a legislative body having two chambers

片语

upper boat house上头

speaker of upper house上院议长

Upper r House上议院

Upper Ten House上十宅

Upper House Candle蜡烛

Upper House of Parliament日本国会参议院

The Upper House上议院

president of upper house上院议长

Upper House Hotel奕居酒店

英汉例句

• proposed constitutional changes to the role of the upper house of parliament or the monarchy's male primogeniture rule have been continually postponed because they are so thorny.

  涉及上议院职能及皇室长子继承制的宪改提议持续遭到搁置，原因是它们太过于敏感。

• he may be lumbered with a nine-party coalition and a one-seat majority in the upper house of parliament.

  也许九个政党组成的联盟让他疲惫不堪，也许议会上院仅一席的多数让他前行艰难。

• mr kan can expect to take credit for the dpj’s doing less disastrously than expected in elections for the upper house of the diet (parliament) next month.

  日本下月将举行国会上院选举，民主党的表现料将不会如此前预计的那么糟糕，菅直人将因此而获赞誉。

• a law that will raise the legal minimum retirement age from 60 to 62 is going through parliament; the upper house is due to conclude its voting on the legislation next week.

  一项旨在把最低法定退休年龄从60岁提高到62岁的法案正在议会进行讨论，上议院将在下周对立法进行最终投票。

• and whereas in most bicameral systems the upper house has fewer members than the lower, the lords outnumber the commons by 746 members to 639.

  在人数方面，多数两院制政体中上院往往少于下院，而英国的上院人数多达746，远远超过下院的639人。

• next year, there will be a vote for the upper house and hatoyama needs to gain an absolute majority there.

  明年，日本上院将会有一次投票表决，鸠山由纪夫必需赢得绝对多数。

• after the defection last september of one centre-left senator, he had the same number of elected senators in the upper house as the opposition leader, silvio berlusconi.

  自从去年九月中左联盟的一位参议员倒戈之后，他与自己的老冤家，（保守派领导人）贝卢斯科尼在上议院拥有的席位就持平了。

• opinion is divided within the government on whether a nuclear extension would have to be approved by the bundesrat, the upper house of parliament, which will probably vote against it.

  关于核能延长计划是不是需要德国议会上院——联邦参议院的批準（其可能将投票反对），德国政府内部也意见不一。

• it might be that the best that the party can hope for is a partial recovery on which it can then build, with the eventual aim of regaining control of the upper house in the 2013 election.

  不过，对于自民党所能希望最好的是能够在经济部分复苏的基础上继续执政，并达到在2013年选举中重新获得上议院控制权的最终目标。

• his brief, says mr hatoyama, is to oversee the 2010 election for the upper house of the diet (parliament).

  鸠山表示，小泽的工作是监督2010年的日本上议院大选。

• but most of the swing from labor went to the greens, who from mid-2011 will probably hold the balance of power in the upper house and be able to block his programme.

  但很多摇摆的选民从投工党转而投绿党，绿党在2011年中叶就有可能平衡上议院权力，而且能够影响到艾伯特将来的政策。

• a loss would cost her government its majority in the bundesrat, the upper house of the legislature.

  失败将导致其政府损失上议院的多数席位。

• all it had done since winning control of the diet’s upper house in july 2007 had been to block the ldp.

  而自从于2007年7月赢得国会上议院控制权后，它所做的都是为阻挡自民党。