考研英语大纲常考词组短语 upper house
释义：
upper house 上议院;上院
例句：
Two Senators represent each state in the Upper House.
两位参议员在上议院各代表一个州。
The upper house is called the Senate which has 100 seats equally distributed among the four provinces of Pakistan.
上议院被称为参议院，拥有100个席位，平均分配给巴基斯坦的四个州。
Twenty members of the upper house were elected, earlier this year.
20名上院议员已在今年早些时候选出。
The next election to the House of Councillors (the upper house) is due in mid-2010.
下一届参议院（上议院）的选举定于2010年中期。
If he resists, the LDP might censure him in the upper house, producing a similar outcome.
如果他加以拒绝，自民党(ldp)也许会在上议院对他横加指责，达到类似的结果。
Mrs Merkel's coalition might lose control of the state legislature and Germany's upper house.
默克尔夫人的联盟可能失去对州议会和德国上议院的控制。
Moreover, in 2010 voters will return to the ballot box for the Diet’s less powerful upper house.
另外，2010年将进行权力稍小的国会上议院的选举。
The defeat means that Mrs Merkel will also lose her majority in the Bundesrat, Germany's upper house.
这次失败意味着默克尔将在德国联邦上院失去多数地位。
All it had done since winning control of the Diet's upper house in July 2007 had been to block the LDP.
而自从于2007年7月赢得国会上议院控制权后，它所做的都是为阻挡自民党。
Months ago, gaining a majority in the upper house to add to its lower-house one was considered a safe bet.
数月之前，通过取得上议院主要席位来增加下议院席位被视为一种保守的赌注。
The election will leave the Greens with the balance of power in the Senate, the upper house, from mid-2011.
本次选举将使绿党从2011年中期开始在参院和上院的权力制衡体系中占有一席之地。
Countries as diverse as Australia and Switzerland function smoothly enough with an elected upper house.
在澳大利亚和瑞士这样的多元化国家，参院由选举产生，运转良好。
This means postponing scheduled elections for half the seats in the Diet's upper house by a week, to July 29th.
这意味着国会上院半数席位选举将被推迟一周，于7月29号举行。
Kazakhstan has a bicameral Parliament, comprised of the lower house (the Mazhilis) and upper house (the Senate).
哈萨克斯坦实行双议会制，由下议院（the Mazhilis）和上议院（参议院）构成。
In last summer's election for the upper house, its 500,000-odd voters sent one representative to the Diet (parliament).
在去年夏天的上议院选举中，50多万选民只派送了一名代表前往议会。
In last summer's election for the upper house, its 500, 000-odd voters sent one representative to the Diet (parliament).
在去年夏天的上议院选举中，50多万选民只派送了一名代表前往议会。
In Australia the 507, 600 people of Tasmania have the same weight in the upper house as the 7m who live in New South Wales.
在澳大利亚，塔斯马尼亚的507,600人在上院拥有和新南威尔士7百万人相同的权重。