bencher

/ben-cher/US // ˈbɛn tʃər //UK // (ˈbɛntʃə) //

凳子,凳子上的人,凳子上,凳子上的东西

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a senior member of an Inn of Court.a member of the House of Commons.
- : a person who handles an oar; rower.

So now he looks less like a serious budget person than a drunken back-bencher who has to be elbowed awake to cast a vote.
He joined the government on the explicit condition that a Kadima back-bencher, Yochanan Plessner, write the law.
He is a great back bencher, and he can sure as hell throw grenades and make things blow up.
Rivera will already be a back-bencher, so he doesn't have prestigious titles to lose.
Now, there never yet was a Bencher of the name of Twopenny; though the mistake is easily accounted for.
If I were a bencher I would like to promote a pageant of these grand old litigants in honour of their service to the English law.
No person is admitted without the approbation of a bencher, or of the benchers in council assembled.
Mr. Knill resided for some years previous to his death in Gray's Inn, and was a bencher of that society.
The prince of Wales (George V.), a bencher of the society, filled the office of treasurer in 1904.