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

• A rank-and-file pressure group; political candidates seeking rank-and-file support.
  由普通民众组成的抗议集体；争取民众支持的政治候选人。
• 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。
• It will remain as a pressure group, but no longer has any pretension to be a political party.
  它仍然是一个压力集团，但不再自称是一个政党。
• The pressure group Action on Smoking and Health claims that the exhaled vapor contains a "deadly" substance, nicotine.
  吸烟与健康活动压力组织断言，呼出的气体包含一种致死性的物质，尼古丁。
• 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。
• They tried to organize themselves into a really effective pressure group.
  他们试图组成一个真正有效的压力集团。
• The first between-subject factor included two levels, having time pressure group and no time pressure group.
  第一个因素是被试间变量，即不同情境，分为有时间压力组和无时间压力组。
• Mr Davies says working with companies leaves the pressure group more time to spend on issues such as privacy concerns in India and China.
  戴维斯表示，与公司合作让这家压力组织有更多时间，花在印度和中国的隐私权等问题上。
• 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。
• 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。