parliament
英 ['pɑːləm(ə)nt]
美 ['pɑrləmənt]
助記提示
1、parl- + -ia + -ment.
2、-ia: word-forming element in names of countries, diseases, flowers, from Latin and Greek -ia, which forms abstract nouns of feminine gender. In paraphernalia, Mammalia, etc. it represents the Latin and Greek plural suffix of nouns in -ium or -ion.
3、含義就是：商談、會談、商討國家大事的地方。
中文詞源
parliament 議會，國會來自古法語parler,說話，詞源同parley,parlor.引申詞義說話的地方，後用於指議會，國會。
英文詞源
- parliament
- parliament: [13] The French verb parler ‘talk’ has made a small but significant contribution to English. Amongst its legacies are parlance [16], parley [16], parlour [13] (etymologically a ‘room set aside for conversation’), and parliament itself. This came from the Old French derivative parlement, which originally meant ‘talk, consultation, conference’, but soon passed to ‘formal consultative body’, and hence to ‘legislative body’. French parler was a descendant of medieval Latin parabolāre ‘talk’, which was derived from the Latin noun parabola (source of English parable, parabola, and parole).
=> ballistic, parable, parlour - parliament (n.)
- c. 1300, "consultation; formal conference, assembly," from Old French parlement (11c.), originally "a speaking, talk," from parler "to speak" (see parley (n.)); spelling altered c. 1400 to conform with Medieval Latin parliamentum.
Anglo-Latin parliamentum is attested from early 13c. Specific sense "representative assembly of England or Ireland" emerged by mid-14c. from general meaning "a conference of the secular and/or ecclesiastical aristocracy summoned by a monarch."
雙語例句
- 1. The Estonian parliament has passed a resolution declaring the republic fully independent.
- 愛沙尼亞議會已經通過了宣布共和國完全獨立的決議。
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- 2. He said parliament and the process of democracy had been debased.
- 他說議會和民主程序已遭貶值。
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- 3. Politicians say it could lead to a dissolution of parliament.
- 政客們說這可能會導致議會解散。
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- 4. A point of order was raised in parliament by Mr Ben Morris.
- 本·莫裏斯先生在議會就程序問題提出質詢。
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- 5. The European Parliament badly needs a president who can burnish its image.
- 歐洲議會急需一位能改善其聲望的主席。
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