legislatures

英 [ˈlɛdʒɪsleɪtʃəz]

美 [ˈlɛdʒɪˌsleɪtʃərz]

n.  立法机关
legislature的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 立法机关；议会
  Thelegislatureof a particular state or country is the group of people in it who have the power to make and pass laws.
  1. The proposals before the legislature include the creation of two special courts to deal exclusively with violent crimes.
     呈交立法机关的提案内容包括成立两个专门审理暴力犯罪的特别法庭。

双语例句

• In the short term, many decisions about energy extraction in the polar regions will be made in courts and legislatures much farther south.
  短期内，极地地区能源开采的决议会在遥远的南方国家的法院和立法机构里制定。
• For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
  他终止我们立法机构行使权力，宣称他们自己拥有在任何情况下为我们制定法律的权力。
• All this has implications for how legislatures make laws – the current battle in the US Congress over broadband regulation has been motivated largely by blogs – but also for some of the most basic principles of American law.
  所有这些不仅对立法机构如何制定法律具有重要意义（目前美国国会关于宽带管制的争论，在很大程度上受到了博客的推动），而且对美国法律中一些最基本的原则也有启示作用。
• Thus, in many states, opponents of the reforms enacted in the first part of the19th century won repeal in state legislatures and in municipal councils of key elements.
  因此，尽管许多州在19世纪上半叶批准进行改革，但是改革的反对者在州议会和市议会成功地废除了主要的改革内容。
• Countries can sign the treaty, and once their laws conform with the treaty, their national legislatures can ratify it.
  各国都可以签署这个公约。一旦他们的法律与公约一致，他们的国家立法机构就可以批准这个法律。
• State legislatures and governors are responsible for setting the borders of congressional districts.
  州议会和州长负责划分国会选区。
• With five parties now the norm in German legislatures, such conundrums will surely become more common.
  以如今五个政党在立法院的议席份额来看，以后类似的难题将会更加普遍。
• Of late, state legislatures and executives have been closing their purses as they struggle to balance tight budgets.
  现如今，各州议会和政府又因疲于平衡收支收紧了腰包。
• Thirty-eight of the fifty state legislatures were required to approve the amendment.
  美国五十个州里面有三十八个州的立法机关都要求批准这项修正案。
• The senators and representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this constitution;
  上述参议员和众议员，各州议会议员，以及合众国和各州一切行政、司法官员均应宣誓或做郑重声明拥护本宪法；