front bench

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˌfrʌnt ˈbentʃ]
• 美式音标 [ˌfrʌnt ˈbentʃ]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• 议会的前座（为反对党领袖保留的座位）

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• There are more millionaires sitting on the Tory front bench then ever before in history.
  在历史上，从来没有这么多百万富翁作为保守党的代表坐在议会前座。
• He and the other shadow cabinet members of the millionaires row of the Tory front bench are hopelessly out of touch with what the real world worries of citizens.
  他和其他的百万富翁影子内阁成员在议会中占据保守党前席，并且无可救药地对国民关注的真实世界不闻不问。
• But Labour’s front bench cannot agree whether to apologise for giddy levels of spending before the credit crunch, or to boast about them, sapping the party’s credibility.
  但是是否对信贷危机前令人目眩的支出水平，或者进行大肆吹嘘高开支、损坏工党信誉的事情进行道歉，他们尚未取得一致。

权威例句

• The first Chevrolet ever built, the 1911 Series C Classic Six, came with a front bench seat.
  FORBES: End Of An Auto Era: Saying Goodbye To The Bench Seat
• MPs since 1997, the Conservative Party does not have many famous names left on its front bench.
  ECONOMIST: Is Michael Howard, of all people, renouncing Thatcherism?

词组短语

短语

• the front bench 前座议员席
• Front Bench Jump 前置长凳辅助弹跳
• front bench seat frame 长条座椅框架
• Open -Front Bench Type Eccentric Presses 台式单柱偏心压力机

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• one of the two rows of seats in the UK parliament used by leading members of the government and leading members of the main opposition party (= the party not in government), or the people who sit in these seats

柯林斯英英字典

• the foremost bench of either the Government or Opposition in the House of Commons
• the leadership (frontbenchers) of either group, who occupy this bench
• (as modifier)