take the Chiltern Hundreds

短语

词形变化

taken the Chiltern Hundreds takes the Chiltern Hundreds 三单 takes the Chiltern Hundreds taking the Chiltern Hundreds took the Chiltern Hundreds taking the Chiltern Hundreds 现在分词 took the Chiltern Hundreds 过去式 taken the Chiltern Hundreds 过去式 taken the Chiltern Hundreds 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To vacate one's seat in the House of Commons (since resignation is not permitted), under the legal fiction of being appointed to an "office of profit under the Crown": the ancient office of Crown Steward for the Chiltern Hundreds, in modern times a mere sinecure.

    英国 政治