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Senate n.参议院；大学理事会 (1) 所有的条约都由参议院批准。(2) 参议院已经投票支持总统的防卫计划。(3) 参议院通过决议接受总统的预算建议。 The idea of a senate as a legislative assembly goes back to the founding of Rome, around 750 B.C.E., with the word taken from the Latin senatus, meaning "highest council." That word, then, is thought to come from senex, meaning "old man," in this case probably meant as a form of respect for wisdom. The word later grew to include national government, and the United States took the word in 1775 to refer to the upper level of the legislature. Today, you can get elected to a senate even if you're not an old man.

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英 ['senət] 美 ['senət] (1) The Senate confirms all treaties.(2) The Senate has voted to support the President's defense plans.(3) The Senate resolved to accept the President's budget proposals. The government of the United States is made up of two governing bodies: the House of Representatives, which has a varying number of voting members, and the Senate, which consists of two members from each state. 1[N-PROPER-COLL 专有集合名词](美国、澳大利亚等国议会的)参议院 The Senate is the smaller and more important of the two parts of the parliament in some countries, for example the United States and Australia. →see usage note at:government  [usu the N]The Senate is expected to pass the bill shortly.预计参议院不久就会通过此议案。...a Senate committee.参议院委员会2[N-PROPER-COLL 专有集合名词]（某些大学的）大学理事会，大学评议会 Senate or the Senate is the governing council at some universities. By the time I was Vice Chancellor, Senate had become a much larger and a much more democratic body...到了我当校长的时候，大学评议会的人员规模已显著扩大，也变得更加民主了。The new bill would remove student representation from the university Senate.新议案将取消大学评议会中的学生代表。

英语单词	Senate
英美音标	英 ['senət] 美 ['senət]
中文释义	n.参议院；大学理事会
英语例句	(1) The Senate confirms all treaties. (2) The Senate has voted to support the President's defense plans. (3) The Senate resolved to accept the President's budget proposals.
中文例句	(1) 所有的条约都由参议院批准。 (2) 参议院已经投票支持总统的防卫计划。 (3) 参议院通过决议接受总统的预算建议。
vocabulary简明	The government of the United States is made up of two governing bodies: the House of Representatives, which has a varying number of voting members, and the Senate, which consists of two members from each state.
vocabulary扩展	The idea of a senate as a legislative assembly goes back to the founding of Rome, around 750 B.C.E., with the word taken from the Latin senatus, meaning "highest council." That word, then, is thought to come from senex, meaning "old man," in this case probably meant as a form of respect for wisdom. The word later grew to include national government, and the United States took the word in 1775 to refer to the upper level of the legislature. Today, you can get elected to a senate even if you're not an old man.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-PROPER-COLL 专有集合名词](美国、澳大利亚等国议会的)参议院 The Senate is the smaller and more important of the two parts of the parliament in some countries, for example the United States and Australia. →see usage note at:government [usu the N] The Senate is expected to pass the bill shortly. 预计参议院不久就会通过此议案。 ...a Senate committee. 参议院委员会 2 [N-PROPER-COLL 专有集合名词]（某些大学的）大学理事会，大学评议会 Senate or the Senate is the governing council at some universities. By the time I was Vice Chancellor, Senate had become a much larger and a much more democratic body... 到了我当校长的时候，大学评议会的人员规模已显著扩大，也变得更加民主了。 The new bill would remove student representation from the university Senate. 新议案将取消大学评议会中的学生代表。

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