| 词汇 | lobbied |
| 释义 | lobbied past simple and past participle oflobby lobby verb[ I or T ] uk /ˈlɒb.i/ us /ˈlɑː.bi/ C2 to try to persuade a politician, the government, or an official group that a particular thing should or should not happen, or that a law should be changed: 游说，试图说服（政客、政府或官方团体） lobby for/againstSmall businesses have lobbied hard for/against changes in the tax laws.小公司极力游说支持／反对修改税法。 [ + to infinitive ]Local residents lobbied to have the factory shut down.当地居民极力要求关闭该工厂。 [ + obj + to infinitive ]They have been lobbying Congress to change the legislation concerning guns.他们一直在游说国会修改涉枪法律。 They are lobbying for tax cuts. We are lobbying for changes to the law on drinking and driving. Farmers lobbied hard against the export bans. They lobbied to have the head teacher removed. They are lobbying for better healthcare facilities. Urging & persuading ambulance-chasing argumentation badger be/go on at someoneidiom blag blagger get (something) through (to someone) go on hortatory hustle incitation incitement jockey sales pitch sway uncoerced unconvinced unpersuaded unpersuasive unsalable Examples of lobbiedlobbied In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. After they obtained support for the survey, they lobbied to make it an ongoing activity rather than a one time study. Both the hard-line authoritarian faction and pro-business affairists lobbied for different reasons to close down the journal. They lobbied policymakers vociferously, and their local groups held frequent meetings and a few demonstrations. Within their own body they passed a number of resolutions on women's issues, on the basis of which they then lobbied individual delegates. Fourth-class postmasters and star-route contractors lobbied heavily against rural delivery. There, he once again lobbied for the secularization of hospitals. Business and vocational associations lobbied via personal contacts and public relations; the conventional assessment was that their influence was growing. Torrents of constituent mail flowed into their offices, and businesses, nonprofits, and civic organizations lobbied for passage of the crime bill. Interests, including consumer advocates and environmentalists, lobbied for the bill. In the end, interest groups successfully lobbied parliament which significantly altered the proposed legislation. We used this variable to capture the possibility that back-benchers could have successfully lobbied if their party was in power. First they lobbied the government on both the state and federal levels when they felt their interests threatened. Second, they lobbied for tighter regulations to protect men from industrial injury. Newspaper coverage also discusses which interests lobbied for, or were likely to benefit (or suffer) from, possible constitutional provisions. It lobbied and it agitated. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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