filibuster

noun

1. （议会中为拖延表决的）冗长演说
   a long speech made in a parliament in order to delay a vote

1. N-COUNT (阻挠议事的)冗长演说,长篇大论
   A filibuster is a long slow speech made to use up time so that a vote cannot be taken and a law cannot be passed.
   1. Senator Seymour has threatened a filibuster to block the bill.
      参议员西摩威胁说要发表长篇演说来阻挠议案通过。
2. VERB 以冗长演说(或长篇大论)进行阻挠
   If a politician filibusters, he or she makes a long slow speech in order to use up time so that a vote cannot be taken and a law cannot be passed.
   1. They simply threatened to filibuster until the Senate adjourns...
      他们只是威胁说要以冗长演说进行阻挠，直到参议院休会。
   2. A group of senators plans to filibuster a measure that would permit drilling in Alaska.
      一群参议员计划通过发表长篇大论来阻挠一项允许在阿拉斯加州钻探石油的议案获得通过。

1. Senator Seymour has threatened a filibuster to block the bill.
   参议员西摩威胁说要发表长篇演说来阻挠议案通过。
2. They simply threatened to filibuster until the Senate adjourns
   他们只是威胁说要以冗长演说进行阻挠，直到参议院休会。
3. A group of senators plans to filibuster a measure that would permit drilling in Alaska.
   一群参议员计划通过发表长篇大论来阻挠一项允许在阿拉斯加州钻探石油的议案获得通过。
4. But he will lack the supermajority required to prevent Republicans from using a parliamentary maneuver, known as a filibuster, to block legislation.
   不过，他将不会拥有防止共和党使用冗长讲话所需的“特别多数”优势。冗长讲话是议员们使用的一种策略，可以被用来阻挠议案的通过。
5. Those deals brought along 62 senators, just above the 60-vote threshold to keep the trade bill from falling to a filibuster.
   这些交易争取到了62名参议员的支持，刚刚超过让该贸易法案避免拖延战术所需的60票门槛。
6. Such treaties are enacted by Congress through what's known as fast-track legislation, meaning that the President negotiates trade agreements and Congress can only approve or disapprove, but cannot amend or filibuster the legislation.
   这些协定被利用快速通道法案在国会获得通过，意思就是总统协商贸易条款，国会仅能对这些条款进行通过或不通过的批复，而不能对条款进行修改或阻挠立法。
7. He had become a master of evasion: his main response to criticism is to threaten, filibuster and delay.
   他已是个回避问题的老手：其回应批评的主要方法是一威胁、二阻挠、三拖延。
8. The filibuster procedure in the US Senate has been used over many years to prevent decisions on many sensible matters.
   多年来，美国参议院的“冗长辩论”（filibuster）程序被用于阻止在很多敏感事情上的决定。
9. Getting to60 votes, enough to defeat a filibuster, is still a tall order.
   要想得到足够瓦解阻挠议事的60票仍是个苛求。
10. For most of the19th century the majority in the Senate had no way to move to "cloture"& ie, end a filibuster and force a vote.
    在大部分的十九世纪中，参议院的多数党没有任何方法可以“终结一个辩论”&也就是终止对手以不停发言来阻扰法案的手段并对法案作强制表决。
11. Filibuster is possible in the US senate, because the rules of the Senate allow unlimited debate. a filibuster may be end by a cloture motion; the technique be also used in the uk.
    在美国参议院阻挠议事是可能的，因为参议院的规定允许无限制地辩论以便阻挠议事。但可用终结动议案来将它结束；在英国，这种方法也被应用。
12. Organizing or carry out of a filibuster
    为阻挠议事进行组织
13. Senators themselves should recognize this fact and push through changes in those rules, including eliminating or at least limiting the filibuster.
    参议员应该认清这个事实，并全力推动修改这些议事规则，包括取消或至少限制以冗长发言阻挠议事的手段。
14. Filibuster: The use of extreme dilatory tactics in an attempt to delay or prevent action, especially in a legislative assembly.
    阻饶议事的议员：用极端拖拉的战术来延迟或防止决议形成，特别是在立法程序上。
15. Next week, however, members of the upper legislative house may override the filibuster to support a deeply dangerous idea.
    然而，下周参议院可能越过这一程序，来支持一个极为危险的想法。
16. I could not prolong a filibuster indefinitely.
    我无法把阻碍议事的冗长演说无休止地延长下去。
17. There is another, grimmer history to the filibuster, though, one that carries special relevance for me.
    但是，对阻挠议事，还有一个冷酷的历史版本，跟我有特别的关联。

noun

1. (law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches

2. a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes

   Synonym:    filibusterer

verb

1. obstruct deliberately by delaying