上院议员身着礼服参加议会的开幕式。
The Lords were attired in their ceremonial robes for the opening of parliament.
他认为专家云集的上院是选举无法代替的。
The expertise gathered in the Lords would, he says, be impossible to replicate with elections.
英国两院制议会的上院。
NLGN发现北爱尔兰的上院议员投票率最低。
The NLGN found that peers resident in Northern Ireland vote least often.
绝大多数上院议员不是也表示不喜欢换人吗？
Had not the peers too overwhelmingly expressed their preference for no change?
上院议员们皆着深色大礼服参加议会开幕式。
The Lords attired themselves in their dark ceremonial robes for the opening of Parliament.
尽管如此，上院当前的工作情况还是比以前有所提高。
Yet for all that, the House of Lords is currently working better than it has for a long time.
这次失败意味着默克尔将在德国联邦上院失去多数地位。
The defeat means that Mrs Merkel will also lose her majority in the Bundesrat, Germany's upper house.
议案可在下院或上院提出，送交上院或下院讨论修正。
Bill can be presented in either the house of Commons or house of Lord, and sent to the other chamber for discussion and amendment.
法案首先在下院通过这些阶段，然后在上院重复这些阶段。
The bill goes through these stages first in the House of Commons and then in the House of Lords.
不过，众多考虑周全之士(许多来自上院)还是强烈要求维持现状。
But plenty of thoughtful people (many of them in the Lords) are holding out for oligarchy.
这意味着国会上院半数席位选举将被推迟一周，于7月29号举行。
This means postponing scheduled elections for half the seats in the Diet's upper house by a week, to July 29th.
美国上院有一个类似的法安悬而未决，作为了另外的一个克隆法案。
A similar measure is pending in the United State Senate as second cloning bill.
联邦议会民族院（上院）有224个席位，人民院有440个席位。
The legislature comprises 224 members in the upper house and 440 members in the lower.
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.
他也许会焦急的等待着，希望上院选举的胜利能帮他赶走那些糟糕的伙伴。
He may also be sweating it out, hoping that success in the upper-house elections will enable him to eject his awkward bedfellows.
本次选举将使绿党从2011年中期开始在参院和上院的权力制衡体系中占有一席之地。
The election will leave the Greens with the balance of power in the Senate, the upper house, from mid-2011.
新闻社报道，这个预算已经在瑞士议会上院获得批准，周二会移交至下议院。
The budget, already approved by the Swiss upper house of parliament, was passed by the lower chamber on Tuesday, news agencies reported.
俄罗斯议会上院议长表示，俄罗斯不会放弃任何跟日本存在争议的岛屿的主权。
The speaker of the Russian parliament's upper chamber says Moscow isn't giving up any of the disputed islands to Japan.
在澳大利亚，塔斯马尼亚的507,600人在上院拥有和新南威尔士7百万人相同的权重。
In Australia the 507, 600 people of Tasmania have the same weight in the upper house as the 7m who live in New South Wales.
自中世纪起，国王、上院和下院三位一体的议会就是英国的权力中心和国家象征。
Since the medieval age, the Parliament, consisting of the House of Commons, the House of Lords and the sovereign, was the core of power and the symbol of the nation.
实权上院多出自联邦制国家，议员由选举产生，代表一方利益，所以必须拥有权力。
Powerful upper houses occur in federal states, and they are powerful because their senators are elected to represent a discrete interest.
由各省众议院选出的上院往往很冷清，人们一年只关注它一次，也就是当它举办全国拼字比赛时。
The sleepy upper house, which is elected by members of provincial assemblies, usually attracts outsiders' attention just once a year, when it hosts the national spelling contest.
如果上院也表示同意，那么上院选举时间正好同于欧洲议会，并且也只要部分议员出席即可。
Elections to the Lords, were they agreed, would probably happen at the same time as elections to the European Parliament, and like them be based on proportional representation.
在澳大利亚，塔斯马尼亚的507,600人在上院拥有和新南威尔士7百万人相同的权重。
In Australia the 507,600 people of Tasmania have the same weight in the upper house as the 7m who live in New South Wales.
上院有皇家专用居室、宾客专用住房和皇家图书馆。1992年一场大火烧毁了上院东北角。
The upper ward, part of which was damaged by fire in 1992, includes the monarch's private apartments, visitors' apartments, and the royal library.
但是作为其家庭财产的AlnwickCastle所在的东北地区，仅仅有2%的上院议员。
But Alnwick Castle, his family pile, is in the North-East region, home to just 2% of the Lords' members now.
但是作为其家庭财产的AlnwickCastle所在的东北地区，仅仅有2%的上院议员。
But Alnwick Castle, his family pile, is in the North-East region, home to just 2% of the Lords' members now.
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