| 释义 |
‖ Sejm|seɪm|
Also Seym.
[Pol.]
In Poland: a general assembly or diet; a parliament; spec. (since 1921) the lower house of the Polish parliament.
[1698B. Connor Hist. Poland II. ii. iii. 83 The Grand Diet or Parliament of Poland, by the Natives call'd Seym Walny.] 1893W. R. Morfill Poland v. 40 Ladislaus had assembled the first known Seym, or Diet, at Checiny... It consisted of the princes..prelates, barons and knights. 1916G. E. Slocombe Poland ix. 85 Their [sc. the nobles'] first step was to obtain a revival of the sejm or general Diet of Poland. 1924A. E. Tennant Studies in Polish Life & Hist. ix. 162 The new Sejm is a democratic assembly in which all classes are represented. 1934E. J. Patterson Poland iii. 83 Under the constitution the powers of the Seym were very great... In case of a disagreement between the two houses the Senate could be over-ridden by a majority of 11/20 in the Seym, in ordinary session. 1959Z. Pelczynski in D. E. Butler et al. Elections Abroad ii. 125 The Sejm had been evolving and adapting itself to the policy of ‘democratisation’. 1981Financial Times 13 Jan. 1/3 It will be discussed at a special Polish Communist Party congress this spring, then go for approval to the Sejm (Parliament). |