take the floor 的定义
- Rise to speak formally to an assembled group, as in After that long introduction, the treasurer took the floor. This idiom uses floor in the sense of “right to speak,” in turn derived from its meaning as the part of the legislature from which members address the group. [c. 1800]
take the floor 近义词
等同于 address
更多take the floor例句
- Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
- France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
- And now, similarly, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee: "Bend over and take it like a prisoner!"
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- Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
- She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.
- I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.
- The inner ends of the burrows were enlarged with a depression in the floor, where the eggs were laid.
- Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
- Wycliffe translates the Vulgate: “And it as a modir onourid schal meete hym, and as a womman fro virgynyte schal take him.”