lobbyist

• n. 说客；活动议案通过者

1. someone who tries to persuade legislators to vote for bills that the lobbyists favor

Critics say Congress will give in to lobbyists and let inefficient providers off the hook ( ' , 放过).

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Changes in policy would be approved or rejected as a whole so that lobbyists would find it hard to influence lawmakers.

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I'm a social worker, a lobbyist and a special assistant to the executive director at the National Association of Social Workers.

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Li: Could you define the two terms - public relations and lobbyist respectively to our large number of readers?

李: 您可以为我刊广大读者分别定义一下公共关系和说客这两个词 吗 ?

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来自lobby,游说。

1. Her husband is a lobbyist, and familiar with almost every senator.

她的丈夫是位说客, 几乎跟每位参议员都熟.

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2. In an hour long philippic , the legislator denounced the lobbyist opposing his bill.

在一个小时的漫骂演说中,立法者猛烈抨击议案通过者反对他的议案.

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3. Sometimes in America we call the lobbyist public affairs, government relations or other names.

有时,在美国我们以公共事务 、 政府关系或别的名称来称呼说客.

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4. Li: Could you define the two terms - public relations and lobbyist respectively to our large number of readers?

李: 您可以为我刊广大读者分别定义一下公共关系和说客这两个词 吗 ?

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lobbyist (n.)

1863, American English, from lobby (n.) in the political sense + -ist.

[A] strong lobbyist will permit himself to lose heavily at the poker-table, under the assumption that the great Congressman who wins the stake will look leniently upon the little appropriation he means to ask for. [George A. Townsend, "Events at the National Capital and the Campaign of 1876," Hartford, Conn., 1876]