lobbies

英 [ˈlɒbiz]

美 [ˈlɑːbiz]

n.  (公共建筑物进口处的)门厅，前厅，大厅; (英国议会的)民众接待厅; (就某问题企图影响从政者的)游说团体
v.  游说(从政者或政府)
lobby的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 向（政府官员、委员会委员等）进行游说（或疏通）
  If youlobbysomeone such as a member of a government or council, you try to persuade them that a particular law should be changed or that a particular thing should be done.
  1. Carers from all over the UK lobbied Parliament last week to demand a better financial deal...
     英国各地的家庭看护人员上周向议会游说，要求改善经济待遇。
  2. Gun control advocates are lobbying hard for new laws...
     枪械管制支持者正努力游说通过新法。
  3. The union has attacked the plan and threatened to lobby against it...
     工会不但攻击该计划，而且还扬言要游说议员反对它。
  4. It must be terribly frustrating to lobby and get absolutely nowhere.
     游说未取得一点结果，一定让人非常沮丧。
• N-COUNT 游说团体；活动集团
  Alobbyis a group of people who represent a particular organization or campaign, and try to persuade a government or council to help or support them.
  1. Agricultural interests are some of the most powerful lobbies in Washington...
     农业利益集团是华盛顿最具影响力的游说团体之一。
  2. He set up this lobby of independent producers.
     他组织了这个由独立生产商组成的游说团。
  3. ...the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, a housing lobby group.
     民权律师委员会，一个住房政策游说团体
• N-COUNT （旅馆等大型建筑的）门厅，大厅，大堂
  In a hotel or other large building, thelobbyis the area near the entrance that usually has corridors and staircases leading off it.
  1. I met her in the lobby of the museum.
     我在博物馆的前厅遇见了她。

双语例句

• Several of the destroyed works had been displayed in the Twin Towers public lobbies and plazas.
  有一些受毁的艺术品在双子城的大厅和广场进行了展览。
• The protectionist lobbies that have wreaked havoc during past economic downturns are weaker or more ambivalent this time round.
  在过去几次经济衰退期间曾造成严重破坏的保护主义游说活动，这次势力有所减弱，或者态度变得更加模棱两可。
• These are also the least upsetting to the interests of powerful lobbies, particularly in finance.
  对于强大的游说集团，特别是在金融行业，这也是对最不会影响到他们利益的做法。
• Worthwhile inventions cannot find support against existing lobbies and new techniques are overlooked.
  有价值的发明没能获得游说联合会的支持，新科技被忽略。
• In the west, regulations have been calibrated and recalibrated over the years after struggles between consumer advocates and business lobbies.
  在西方，经过消费者利益维权者和企业游说团体的长期斗争，规章制度经受了校准与再校准。
• Whirring air conditioners, fuzzy-sounding speakers and nearby noisy lobbies were obscuring his carefully crafted sound effects.
  开枪空调器，模糊测扬声器及附近嘈杂大堂被遮盖了他精心设计音响效果。
• Do not interfere with prices and wages; and above all avoid doing anything that wittingly or unwittingly strengthens business, labour or agricultural lobbies.
  不要干预价格和薪资；最重要的是，要避免有意或无意地增强企业、劳动者或农业游说团体的权力。
• Even as they try to shape pending regulations, business lobbies are also looking beyond President Bush.
  即时他们试图完善未觉的规章，商业界的游说团体然希望超越布什总统。
• Truth and justice know no lobbies, no politics
  真相和正义没有游说团和政治权术
• The ground level of towers contain public functions, lobbies and parking entrances.
  塔楼的首层是公共功能、门厅及停车场入口。