parliament: [13] The French verb parler ‘talk’ has made a small but significant contribution to English. Amongst its legacies are parlance [16], parley [16], parlour [13] (etymologically a ‘room set aside for conversation’), and parliament itself. This came from the Old French derivative parlement, which originally meant ‘talk, consultation, conference’, but soon passed to ‘formal consultative body’, and hence to ‘legislative body’. French parler was a descendant of medieval Latin parabolāre ‘talk’, which was derived from the Latin noun parabola (source of English parable, parabola, and parole). => ballistic, parable, parlour
parliament (n.)
c. 1300, "consultation; formal conference, assembly," from Old French parlement (11c.), originally "a speaking, talk," from parler "to speak" (see parley (n.)); spelling altered c. 1400 to conform with Medieval Latin parliamentum.
Anglo-Latin parliamentum is attested from early 13c. Specific sense "representative assembly of England or Ireland" emerged by mid-14c. from general meaning "a conference of the secular and/or ecclesiastical aristocracy summoned by a monarch."
实用例句
1. The Estonian parliament has passed a resolution declaring the republic fully independent.
爱沙尼亚议会已经通过了宣布共和国完全独立的决议。
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2. He said parliament and the process of democracy had been debased.
他说议会和民主程序已遭贬值。
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3. Politicians say it could lead to a dissolution of parliament.
政客们说这可能会导致议会解散。
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4. A point of order was raised in parliament by Mr Ben Morris.
本·莫里斯先生在议会就程序问题提出质询。
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5. The European Parliament badly needs a president who can burnish its image.
