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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。 The upper house is called the Senate which has 100 seats equally distributed among the four provinces of Pakistan. | ||
两院制的联邦议会包括女王,参议院(上议院)有76个参议员,众议院(下议院)有150个成员。 The bicameral Commonwealth Parliament consists of the Queen, the Senate (the upper house) of 76 senators, and a house of Representatives (the lower house) of 150 members. | ||
同年,联合王国上议院科学技术专门委员会的一份报告建议对深静脉血栓形成的风险进行研究。 In the same year, a report from the Select Committee on Science and Technology of the United Kingdom House of Lords recommended research into the risk of DVT. | ||
涉及上议院职能及皇室长子继承制的宪改提议持续遭到搁置,原因是它们太过于敏感。 Proposed constitutional changes to the role of the upper house of parliament or the monarchy's male primogeniture rule have been continually postponed because they are so thorny. | ||
上议院议长凯里·巴斯蒂安虽然存活了下来,却被困在议会大楼的废墟中就在疏散到多米尼加共和国的前一天。 Kely Bastien, the President of the Senate, survived the quake but was trapped in the destroyed parliament building for a day before being evacuated to the Dominican Republic. | ||
唯恐天下不乱的媒体这一次是有的忙了。尤其是在下月的上议院选举正在逼近的关头,这样的非常时期,它们当然不会错过冲锋陷阵的好时机。 All this has given the Japanese media much to feast on, especially with the upper-house election looming next month. | ||