cloture
英 ['kl??tj??]
美['klot??]
- vt. 結束辯論
- n. 討論終結
GRE
英文詞源
- cloture (n.)
- 1871, the French word for "closure, the action of closing," applied to debates in the French Assembly ("action of closing (debate) by will of a majority"), then to the House of Commons and U.S. Congress, from French cl?ture, from Old French closture (see closure). It was especially used in English by those opposed to the tactic.
In foreign countries the Cl?ture has been used notoriously to barricade up a majority against the "pestilent" criticism of a minority, and in this country every "whip" and force is employed by the majority to re-assert its continued supremacy and to keep its ranks intact whenever attacked. How this one-sided struggle to maintain solidarity can be construed into "good for all" is inexplicable in the sense uttered. ["The cl?ture and the Recent Debate, a Letter to Sir J. Lubbock," London, 1882]
雙語例句
- 1. Yesterday, we saw the cloture of the Medicare Modernization Act.
- 昨天，我們看到醫療現代化法案的討論終結。
來自辭典例句
- 2. To apply cloture to ( a parliamentary debate ).
- 結束辯論而付諸表決采用終結辯論以表決的方法結束 ( 國會辯論 )
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