单词 | backbench |
释义 | backbench (once / 23639 pages) n WORD FAMILY backbench: backbencher, backbenches+/backbencher: backbenchers USAGE EXAMPLESResolving the contradictions within the government’s various positions, and preventing backbench revolts destroying its slim parliamentary majority, will be all-consuming. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) In fact, he was a Labour MP in Stoke-on-Trent, briefly one of Tony Blair's ministers and thereafter something of a backbench rebel under New Labour. BBC(Dec 25, 2016) The legal challenge was initially championed by Brexit Secretary David Davis, who was then a backbench Conservative MP. BBC(Dec 21, 2016) n any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons Hyper seat any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit) |
随便看 |
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。