- 1立法者；立法委員（台灣口語常說「立委」）
A legislator is a person who has the power to make laws, or who belongs to the body that makes them. That body may be a parliament, a congress, or another law-making house; the people inside it are legislators. The word is rather formal. In everyday talk, people often use a local job name instead — member of parliament, senator, and so on. Though actually, news writers still like legislator when they need one neat word that works in any country. A legislator is not a lawyer. A lawyer uses the law in court; a legislator helps write the law in the first place. Some legislators used to be lawyers, which is why the two get mixed up. People also stretch it a little: “a key legislator” means this person has a lot of say in which laws pass.
From the word’s history
From Latin lēgislātor.
直接來自拉丁文 lēgislātor「立法者」。
組成From Latin lēgislātor: lēgis (“of the law”) + lātor (“one who brings or proposes”).
同家族的字
- legislaturesame Latin stem — the body legislators sit in
- legislationthe laws that legislators make
- legislativethe adjective for law-making
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
legislatornoun/ˈlɛd͡ʒɪˌsleɪtə/
- 1
Someone who creates or enacts laws.
- Give the children of the poor that portion of education which will enable them to know their own resources; which will cultivate in them an onward-looking hope, and give them rational amusement in their leisure hours: this, and this only, will work out that moral revolution, which is the legislator's noblest purpose.
- 2
Someone who creates or enacts laws.
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