pressure group

英 [ˈpreʃə ɡruːp]

美 [ˈpreʃər ɡruːp]

n.  压力集团(向政府和公众施加影响的团体)

法律

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牛津词典

noun

• 压力集团（向政府和公众施加影响的团体）
  a group of people who try to influence the government and ordinary people's opinions in order to achieve the action they want, for example a change in a law
  1. the environmental pressure group ‘Greenpeace’
     “绿色和平”这个环保压力集团

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （为说服政府或其他权力机关而组织的）压力集团
  Apressure groupis an organized group of people who are trying to persuade a government or other authority to do something, for example to change a law.
  1. ...the environmental pressure group Greenpeace.
     环保压力集团“绿色和平”组织

英英释义

noun

• a group of people who try actively to influence legislation
  Synonym:lobbythird house

双语例句

• The head of a political pressure group told VOA his group will take the lawmakers to court for the pay hike, and threatened mass action if the court refused to hear his case.
  一名政治压力组织的领导人对美国之音说，他的团队将把国会议员告上法庭，并威胁说，如果法庭拒绝审理此案，将采取大规模的行动。
• Forcing states to accept the permits of the most permissive jurisdictions would be an assault on states'rights, says Mark Glaze of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a pressure group.
  一个来自压迫性团体&市长反对非法枪支的马克格里斯说，迫使州政府接受司法权里最底线的携枪许可证是对州政府权力的蔑视。
• The project has already been strongly criticised by associations like Privacy International, a pressure group which has launched legal action against the IT company.
  但这项功能已经遭到众多机构组织的强烈指责，如压力团体“隐私国际”就已经对谷歌公司提出诉讼。
• For example etc, a pressure group based in Toronto, is particularly concerned about corporate exploitation of what it calls "extreme genetic engineering".
  例如，总部设在多伦多的压力团体etc对其所称的企业利用“极端基因工程”尤其关注。
• Most scientists who can present evidence of an environmental threat can reasonably assume that a pressure group will take up the issue
  能够提供环境威胁证据的大多数科学家都有理由认为，环保团体不会放过这个问题。
• They have no pressure group working on their behalf.
  他们没有压力集团替他们进行游说。
• A conservative pressure group he started, the Hermanator's Intelligent Thinkers Movement ( HITM& get it?), has not had much of an impact.
  他创建的保守派利益团体，赫尔曼智囊运动（音译与打倒自由派相似，明白吗），并没有太大影响力。
• Result: ( 1) There were significant difference of PAI-1, insulin, C-peptide and Insulin Sensitivity Index ( ISI) between hypertension patient and normal blood pressure group ( P0.01).
  结果：（1）原发性高血压组与对照组相比PAI-1、胰岛素、C-肽和胰岛素敏感性指数（ISI）有极显著差异（P＜0.01）。
• Cronyism and pressure groups dominate, rather than supply based on quality, service and price.
  任人唯亲和压力团体（pressuregroup）占据主导地位，而不是基于质量、服务和价格供应产品的做法。
• Environmental pressure group Greenpeace heaped scorn on the report and accused Merkel of yielding to the powerful nuclear energy lobby, a charge echoed by an increasingly confident opposition.
  环境监督组织绿色和平组织藐视该报告并且指责默克尔屈服于强大的核能游说，由越来越有自信的反对派发出的指控。