caucus

• n. 干部会议；核心会议
• vi. 召开干部会议；开核心会议

可能来自北美印第安土著语，义为长者。

1. a closed political meeting

caucus

caucus: [18] Caucus ‘closed party meeting’ is believed to be of native American origin. Certainly its early usage was restricted to the USA (it did not reach British English until the 1870s, when it became something of a political buzzword for a time). In form and meaning it strongly resembles caucauasu, a word meaning ‘counsellor’ in the Algonquian languages of eastern Canada and the USA which was recorded in print by Captain John Smith (1580– 1631), an early English colonist in America.

caucus (v.)

1850, from caucus (n.), but caucusing is attested from 1788.

caucus (n.)

"private meeting of party leaders," 1763, American English (New England), perhaps from an Algonquian word caucauasu "counselor, elder, adviser" in the dialect of Virginia, or from the Caucus Club of Boston, a 1760s social & political club whose name possibly derived from Modern Greek kaukos "drinking cup." Another old guess is caulker's (meeting) [Pickering, 1816], but OED finds this dismissable.

caucus: "This noun is used throughout the United States, as a cant term for those meetings, which are held by the different political parties, for the purpose of agreeing upon candidates for office, or concerting any measure, which they intend to carry at the subsequent public, or town meetings." [John Pickering, "A Vocabulary, or Collection of Words and Phrases Which Have Been Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States of America," Boston, 1816]

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The word caucus, and its derivative caucusing, are often used in Boston. The last answers much to what we stile parliamenteering or electioneering. All my repeated applications to different gentlemen have not furnished me with a satisfactory account of the origin of caucus. It seems to mean, a number of persons, whether more or less, met together to consult upon adopting and prosecuting some scheme of policy, for carrying a favorite point. [William Gordon, "History, Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the Independence of the United States of America," London, 1788]

the Congressional Black Caucus

美国国会提倡黑人民权的核心小组

牛津词典

...the Black Caucus of minority congressmen.

少数派议员中的黑人集团

柯林斯高阶英语词典

There are currently 56 Democrats in the senate and two independents who caucus with the Democrats.

目前有56个民主党在参议院和两名独立谁党团与民主党.

期刊摘选

In Maine, the Republican Party is holding a caucus.

在美国缅因州, 共和党团会议的投票活动正在如火如荼地开展.

期刊摘选

Republicans will select the candidate of their choice through a majority vote at each caucus site.

共和党将在每个党内预选党团会议地点投票选举选民推举的侯选人.获得半数以上选票者获胜.

期刊摘选

It kept the Democratic caucus from fragmenting.

它也使得民主党的核心小组避免了土崩瓦解的危险.

期刊摘选

the Congressional Black Caucus

美国国会提倡黑人民权的核心小组

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