filibuster

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n. 阻挠议事的活动, 掠夺兵, 暴兵, 海盗 vi. 掠夺 vt. (以冗长的演说)阻碍议案通过

发音

UK /ˈfɪlɪbʌstə(ɹ)/
US /ˈfɪləˌbəstər/
AU
US /ˈfɪləbʌstɚ/

词形变化

filibusters 复数 filibusters filibustered filibustering filibusters 三单 filibustering 现在分词 filibustered 过去式 filibustered 过去分词

别名

filabuster philibuster fillibuster

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A mercenary soldier; a freebooter; specifically, a mercenary who travelled illegally in an organized group from the United States to a country in Central America or the Spanish West Indies in the mid-19th century seeking economic and political benefits through armed force.

    历史
  2. 2.

    A tactic (such as giving long, often irrelevant speeches) employed to delay the proceedings of, or the making of a decision by, a legislative body, particularly the United States Senate.

    拉布

    冗长辩论

    费力把事拖

    美国 政治
  3. 3.

    A member of a legislative body causing such an obstruction.

    美国 政治
v.
  1. 1.

    To take part in a private military action in a foreign country.

  2. 2.

    To use obstructionist tactics in a legislative body.

    不及物 及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

filibusterer

上位词 4

delay holdup legislator delayer
动词

上位词 7

block embarrass blockade hinder obstruct stymie stymy

词源

Borrowed from Spanish filibustero (“pirate”), from French flibustier, ultimately from Dutch vrijbuiter (“freebooter”), from vrij (“free”) + buit (“booty”) + -er (“agent”). The alteration in the first syllable in French is due to the word's being somewhat conflated with vlieboot (“light, flat-bottomed cargo vessel with two or three masts”) when it was borrowed into French or another language from Dutch. The word is cognate and analogous to English freebooter.

来源：wiktionary