Britain's House of Lords, most of whose members are appointed supposedly on merit, has the opposite bias.
英国的上议院则有相反的偏好，据推测其大多数成员是由功勋来指定的。
Yet for all that, the House of Lords is currently working better than it has for a long time.
尽管如此，上院当前的工作情况还是比以前有所提高。
Her case was referred to the House of Lords Committee for Privileges and was heard in 1922. Initially the Committee found in her favour but this decision was soon reversed.
1922年，她的案例送交上议院特权委员会审理。初时判决对她有利，但裁决很快出现逆转。
And in May the House of Lords halted passage of a bill that would have given doctors some scope to help grownups to die.
在五月的时候，上议院曾拒绝通过一项可能会使医生有权限用安乐死结束病痛婴儿生命的法案。
Baroness Elaine Murphy, a doctor and member of Britain's House of Lords, admitted to fabricating the ailment when she submitted a paper about it to the British Medical Journal in 1974.
英国上议院的博士，伊莱恩·墨菲女男爵，承认其在1974年向[英国医学杂志]提交的一篇论文中捏造了这一疾病。
When Sir Gus goes at the end of the year to the House of Lords, the Valhalla of the civil service, his role as head of the domestic service and cabinet secretary will be divided into three.
当奥唐纳爵士在年末再到上议院时，他在上议院的总管兼内阁大臣的职位将被三人瓜分。
The charity supported an unsuccessful member's bill in the House of Lords in 2006 which proposed safeguards including a medical assessment by two doctors.
该慈善组织支持上议院一议员于2006年提出的一项未被通过的议案，它提出了若干保险措施其中包括一份由两个医生开出的医疗鉴定。
Liam Byrne, immigration minister, said: "with powerful controls in place, migration can make Britain richer and that's what we're blunt about with the House of Lords."
英国移民大臣利亚姆·伯恩(LiamByrne)表示：“有了强有力的控制，外来移民能让英国更为富裕，这正是我们要对上议院明言的。”
Created by statute in 2005, it opened its doors on October 1st 2009, replacing the Appellate Committee of the House of lords (known as the "law lords").
根据2005年法令建立的最高法院于2009年10月1号开门大吉，替换了上议院的上诉委员会(也就是上议院高等法院)。
If that happens, Lord Strabolgi may be cheering from another place: in his last parliamentary intervention he called for the House of Lords to be replaced by an elected senate.
如果果真如此，Strabolgi议员或许会含笑九泉：在他的最后一次国会质询中他呼吁以选举的参议院来替代贵族院。
As expected, the House of Commons passed the motion, but the Lords surprised everyone, defeating it by just three votes.
正如所期待的，下议院通过了提议，但是上议院出乎所有人意料的以3票否决了它。
For all his SINS, Mr Martin will probably go to grass in the House of Lords, like many speakers before him.
为了其所犯的过失，马丁先生可能将被放逐到贵族院，就像他之前的许多议长一样。
First, the vote was for a new member of the House of Lords rather than the Commons, and by an odd procedure that strains even Britain's notoriously elastic constitutional arrangements.
第一，这次选举是选上议院议员而不是下议院议员，而且选举程序怪异的恪守堪称英国臭名昭著的灵活的法制体系。
That fine and difficult judgment is being revisited this week in the House of Lords, in two different ways.
本周这一精美复杂的论断在上议院被重新审议，而且还是以两种不同的方式。
Half a mile away there's another thumping great bronze, the two-section 1962 Knife Edge, opposite the House of Lords - a site chosen by Moore for its high visibility.
半英里之外还有另外一件庞大的青铜雕塑，1962年的两片《刀锋》，位于英国上议院对面——因为位置醒目摩尔选择了这里。
According to the university, at least 117 alumni were elected to parliament in 2010 and more than 140 sit in the House of Lords.
根据牛津大学的数据，至少有117名校友在2010年当选国会议员，另有140多名校友进入上议院。
In 1774, in the most important copyright case in Anglo-American legal history, the British House of Lords sided with Donaldson and rejected the idea of a perpetual copyright.
1774年，英美法系历史上最重要的版权案例中，英国贵族院附议了唐纳森的主张，驳回了永久版权的主意。
Two years after his retirement in 1977, Peter Hill-Norton was made Baron and a member of the House of Lords.
自1977年退休两年之后，彼得.希尔.诺顿就被授予男爵爵位以及上议院议员职位。
The messy Health and Social Care Bill, which passed a reading in the House of Lords after a noisy scrap this week, is not seen as the Department of Health’s finest hour, for one thing.
一方面，对于健康和社会福利法案，本周上议院在一片争吵之后通过了一个解决办法，但此法案还是没有出现在英国卫生部的决策当中。
Debbie Purdy, who has multiple sclerosis, is seeking to clarify the law in the House of Lords.
患有多发性硬化症的黛比·普尔蒂，在上议院寻求明确法律。
In the same year, a report from the Select Committee on Science and Technology of the United Kingdom House of Lords recommended research into the risk of DVT.
同年，联合王国上议院科学技术专门委员会的一份报告建议对深静脉血栓形成的风险进行研究。
The cellar lay directly underneath the House of Lords, and over the following months 36 barrels of gunpowder were moved in, enough to blow everything and everyone in the vicinity sky high, if ignited.
地下室正好就在上议院下面，接下来几个月内，约有36桶火药源源不断地运进，如果引爆，足以把周边地区炸的底朝天。
Many peers expect their elected successors to be much more assertive towards the House of Commons, straining old conventions that the Lords should bow before the primacy of the elected chamber.
很多贵族期待他们通过选举产生的继任者能在下议院更有自信，由此打破旧时上议院屈从于下议院的惯例。
Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.
那时房内充满男女，非利士人的众首领也都在那里。房的平顶上约有三千男女，观看参孙戏耍。
On the 27 July 1949 the Lords voted on its composition. Although no legislation followed, this vote established for the first time that the House of Lords was in favour of admitting women.
1949年7月27日,上议院就其组成方式投票,尽管没有随之立法,但投票首次确认上议院赞同接纳女性.
Cromwell supported the creation of an other house in Parliament, which would consist of 40 to 70 people to be chosen by him and then approved by the Commons - a house of Lords in all but name.
克伦威尔主张国会设立另一议院包括40至70人由他选任并经下议院批准——实质等同上议院不过名衔有别。
What does it matter what happens outside? The House of Commons may do what it likes, and so may the House of Lords.
外面发生什么事又有何妨？下院想干什么就干什么吧，上院也可如此。
What does it matter what happens outside? The House of Commons may do what it likes, and so may the House of Lords.
外面发生什么事又有何妨？下院想干什么就干什么吧，上院也可如此。
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