state/national/federal etc legislature• These guys are talking about something that was judicially created apart from state legislatures or the constitution.• Since that date more than 600 bills had been introduced in state legislatures.• Idaho had been selected by anti-abortionists after similar bills had been defeated in several other state legislatures.• What others in Congress and the state legislatures had in mind can not be determined with any degree of certainty.• Eventually, in late August, the state legislatureapproved a budget similar to that which it had rejected on June 30.• The restructuring actually gave control of the grid to the Independent System Operator, a body established by the state legislature.• You know, I hear about all the things the state legislature is supposedly doing to make schools better.• In all three countries, the citizenry occasionally votes, which can result in turnover within the national legislature.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + LEGISLATURE | LEGISLATURE + VERBADJECTIVE➤bicameral, unicameral兩院制/一院制立法機構▸➤109-member, etc.由 109 名成員等組成的立法機構▸➤elected選舉產生的立法機關▸➤federal, national, provincial, state聯邦立法機構;國家立法機構;省立法機構;州立法機構➤Democratic, Republican-controlled, etc.民主黨、共和黨等控制的立法機構VERB + LEGISLATURE➤be elected to經選舉進入立法機構◇She is the youngest woman to be elected to the national legislature.她是入選國家立法機構的最年輕女性。LEGISLATURE + VERB➤approve sth, enact sth, pass sth立法機構批准⋯/頒佈⋯/通過⋯◇The legislature passed a law to prohibit the dumping of nuclear waste.立法機構通過法律禁止傾倒核廢物。➤vote立法機構表決◇The legislature voted narrowly to table a motion of no-confidence in the government.立法機構以微弱優勢通過決議,將提出對政府的不信任動議。