That's their House of Lords.

艾凡：那是他们的上议院。

The house of lords defeated the amendment.

上议院否决了该修正案。

D magnificent apologia for the house of lords.

为上议院所作的精彩辩解。

The appeal was rejected by the House of Lords.

上院拒绝受理上诉。

And the most important part of Parliament was the House of Lords.

议会的最重要的部分是上议院。

Even Britain has expelled most of its aristocrats from the House of Lords.

英国甚至将多数贵族驱离出了上议院。

Yet for all that, the House of Lords is currently working better than it has for a long time.

尽管如此，上院当前的工作情况还是比以前有所提高。

Debbie Purdy, who has multiple sclerosis, is seeking to clarify the law in the House of Lords.

患有多发性硬化症的黛比·普尔蒂，在上议院寻求明确法律。

Britain's House of Lords, most of whose members are appointed supposedly on merit, has the opposite bias.

英国的上议院则有相反的偏好，据推测其大多数成员是由功勋来指定的。

That fine and difficult judgment is being revisited this week in the House of Lords, in two different ways.

本周这一精美复杂的论断在上议院被重新审议，而且还是以两种不同的方式。

Two years after his retirement in 1977, Peter Hill-Norton was made Baron and a member of the House of Lords.

自1977年退休两年之后，彼得.希尔.诺顿就被授予男爵爵位以及上议院议员职位。

For all his SINS, Mr Martin will probably go to grass in the House of Lords, like many speakers before him.

为了其所犯的过失，马丁先生可能将被放逐到贵族院，就像他之前的许多议长一样。

Under another set of proposals due to be unveiled in May, the present House of Lords is earmarked for abolition.

在其他将于5月揭晓的一系列提案中，当前的上议院又被打上了待废止的标签。

Mr Wilders was invited to the House of Lords for a screening of Fitna by the UK Independence Party's Lord Pearson.

Wilders先生是应英国独立党党首pearson之邀赴英国上议院放映他的影片《Fitna》。

A conference they staged in London last October was co-hosted by four British universities, plus the House of Lords.

他们去年10月在伦敦召开的一次会议是由4个英国大学与上议院(House of Lords)共同举办的。

What does it matter what happens outside? The House of Commons may do what it likes, and so may the House of Lords.

外面发生什么事又有何妨？下院想干什么就干什么吧，上院也可如此。

And in May the House of Lords halted passage of a bill that would have given doctors some scope to help grownups to die.

在五月的时候，上议院曾拒绝通过一项可能会使医生有权限用安乐死结束病痛婴儿生命的法案。

According to the university, at least 117 alumni were elected to parliament in 2010 and more than 140 sit in the House of Lords.

根据牛津大学的数据，至少有117名校友在2010年当选国会议员，另有140多名校友进入上议院。

Eventually, in March 1605, Thomas Percy was able to use his connections at the Royal Court to rent a cellar right under the House of Lords!

最后，在1605年3月，托马斯·珀西利用他在宫廷的关系租用了一个位于上议院正下方的地窖！

Earlier this month the Sovereign Grant Bill, which will revolutionise the way the Royal Family is funded was passed by the House of Lords.

这个月早些时候的主权授予条例草案由上议院通过，这将彻底改变皇室受资助的方式。

Created by statute in 2005, it opened its doors on October 1st 2009, replacing the Appellate Committee of the House of lords (known as the "law lords").

根据2005年法令建立的最高法院于2009年10月1号开门大吉，替换了上议院的上诉委员会(也就是上议院高等法院)。

The charity supported an unsuccessful member's bill in the House of Lords in 2006 which proposed safeguards including a medical assessment by two doctors.

该慈善组织支持上议院一议员于2006年提出的一项未被通过的议案，它提出了若干保险措施其中包括一份由两个医生开出的医疗鉴定。

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.

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。

Half a mile away there's another thumping great bronze, the two-section 1962 Knife Edge, opposite the House of Lords - a site chosen by Moore for its high visibility.

半英里之外还有另外一件庞大的青铜雕塑，1962年的两片《刀锋》，位于英国上议院对面——因为位置醒目摩尔选择了这里。