第三人称单数：filibusters
第三人称复数：filibusters
现在分词：filibustering
过去分词：filibustered
过去式：filibustered
1. 掠夺兵：filiation 父子关系 | filibuster 掠夺兵 | filibusterer 阻挠议事的议员
2. 掠夺兵,暴兵,强盗：dunderhead 笨蛋 | filibuster 掠夺兵,暴兵,强盗 | gangster 歹徒,强盗
1. (阻挠议事的)冗长演说,长篇大论
A filibuster is a long slow speech made to use up time so that a vote cannot be taken and a law cannot be passed.
e.g. Senator Seymour has threatened a filibuster to block the bill.
参议员西摩威胁说要发表长篇演说来阻挠议案通过。
2. 以冗长演说(或长篇大论)进行阻挠
If a politician filibusters, he or she makes a long slow speech in order to use up time so that a vote cannot be taken and a law cannot be passed.
e.g. They simply threatened to filibuster until the Senate adjourns...
他们只是威胁说要以冗长演说进行阻挠，直到参议院休会。
e.g. A group of senators plans to filibuster a measure that would permit drilling in Alaska.
一群参议员计划通过发表长篇大论来阻挠一项允许在阿拉斯加州钻探石油的议案获得通过。
1. Only 48 senators voted to halt a filibuster against the amendment, far short of the 60 votes needed to cut off debate.
2. That's why the OALA filibuster held on for nearly two months.
3. Opposition threats of a filibuster risk being undermined by Obama's expected nomination Monday of Republican Senator Judd Gregg to serve as his commerce secretary.
4. The opposition lawmakers simply cannot filibuster forever, and the project will sooner or later move ahead.
5. But political bickering and filibuster has eroded its good tradition, credibility and efficiency.
6. Clearly the filibuster is politically motivated and an insult to the LegCo as well as to the public's intelligence.
7. It is regrettable that the plan was delayed by an opposition filibuster, he added.
8. Bush's judicial nominees move through the Senate without the threat of a Democratic filibuster.
9. At no time should the government sit hoping to wait out a filibuster and potential rejection by lawmakers opposing the scheme.
10. Democrats were unable to find grounds for launching a filibuster, a politically risky delaying tactic that minority parties use to block bills or nominees.
noun
1. (law) a tactic for delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches
2. a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes
Synonym: filibusterer
verb
1. obstruct deliberately by delaying