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  1. 1nB1/ˈsenətər/ · /ˈsenətə/參議員

    A member of a senate, which is one part of the group that makes a country's laws.

    A member of a senate參議院的一員 which is one part of the group that makes a country's laws那是制定一個國家法律的團體的其中一部分

    示範例句 · Example

    In class we learned that a senator helps make the country's laws.

    逐字在課堂上我們學到一個參議員幫忙制定國家的法律。

    「senator」是「參議院（the Senate）」的成員。很多國家的立法機構分成兩院，參議院是其中一院，例如美國。中文叫「參議員」。名字前面用大寫 Senator，例如 Senator Lin。

    常見搭配

    • a senator from (a place)

      來自某地的參議員

      a senator who represents a certain state or area

      She is a senator from a small mountain town.

    • elect a senator

      選出參議員

      to choose a senator by voting

      The people will elect a new senator next year.

core核心畫面

You can picture a senator as one of the people who sits in the senate — one chamber of the group that makes a country's laws — and helps decide those laws. The word carries an old flavour of 'a respected elder in the council'.

可以想成坐在「參議院／元老院」裡的其中一位成員——參議院是制定國家法律的機構的其中一個部分，而這個人就是在那裡幫忙決定法律的人。字源上還帶著「議事會裡受敬重的長者」這層味道。

From the word’s history

From Latin senator 'member of the senate', from senex 'old man, old' (PIE root *sen- 'old'). The Roman senate was literally a 'council of elders', so a senator was first one of the senior, more experienced men trusted to decide public matters.

來自拉丁文 senator（參議院成員），源自 senex（老人、年長的）。羅馬的參議院原本就是「長者議事會」，所以 senator 最早指的是那些較年長、較有經驗、被託付來決定公共事務的人。

etymonline.com/word/senator; etymonline.com/word/senate

同家族的字

複數 senators

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Senatornoun

  • 1

    The title for someone who is elected to be a senator.

    • The legislation, sponsored by Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Lee, and Murphy, required the president to withdraw all forces from Yemen (except those participating in antiterrorism operations against AQAP) within 30 days of enactment.

senatornoun/ˈsɛn.ə.tə/

  • 1

    A member, normally elected, in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate, as, for instance, the legislatures of the United States and Canada.

    • It was disbanded when Derrick was only six, after that grouchy old ultra-Libertarian Senator Timothy de Illy made “welfare hotel for Third-World nations” a household catchphrase.
    • I was a United States senator-elect at age thirty.
  • 2

    datedA member of any legislative body or parliament, particularly the British Parliament.

  • 3

    historicalA member of the ancient Roman Senate.

  • 4

    historicalA member of a governing council in other states in the ancient world.

  • 5

    A member of the ruler’s council or governing council in general, a leading statesman.

    • Both we will raigne as Conſuls of the earth, And mightie kings ſhall be our Senators.
  • 6

    obsoleteAn important church official.

  • 7

    In Germany, a minister of the executive branch of government in the city states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg; and a government official of cities that were part of the Hanseatic League.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。