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

• I enter and leave public parks, libraries, the lobbies of skyscrapers, and movie houses. I stay in no place for very long.
  我会进出于公园、图书馆、摩天大楼和电影院，我也可以在不知名的什么地方呆上很久。
• But some observers and participants stressed that stark divisions remained among different participants and lobbies in the talks.
  然而，一些观察家和与会人士强调，参与谈判的各方与游说者依然存在严重分歧。
• It will bring sweeping cuts to tariffs on manufactured goods but there were large exemptions for agricultural products after Seoul came under pressure from farming lobbies.
  这项自由贸易协定将全面削减制成品关税，但在韩方受到农业游说集团的压力后，对农产品将有较大的豁免。
• The negotiations pose the next battleground in a decades-long fight. The American textile industry consistently lobbies for the trade status of garments to be determined by where the material was made, not just where garments were sewn.
  相关谈判为这场长达几十年的争斗开辟了另一个战场。美国纺织业一直在开展游说活动，希望服装的贸易地位由原材料的产地决定，而不仅仅是缝制成衣的地点。
• Fixed an error that prevented players in online lobbies from chatting globally after sending private messages to other players.
  修正错误以防止玩家在线上大厅传送私人讯息给其他玩家后变成与所有人交谈。
• Truth and justice know no lobbies, no politics
  真相和正义没有游说团和政治权术
• 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。
• It should not base its interests on traditional lobbies and pressures.
  它不应将其利益建立在传统的游说和压力基础上。
• Online lobbies have been renamed.
  在线大厅已经重新命名。
• 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。