legation

英 [lɪˈɡeɪʃn]

美 [lɪˈɡeɪʃn]

n.  公使馆全体人员; 公使馆

复数：legations　

BNC.29908 / COCA.31511

牛津词典

noun

• 公使馆全体人员
  a group of diplomats representing their government in a foreign country in an office that is below the rank of an embassy
• 公使馆
  the building where these people work

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 公使馆全体人员
  Alegationis a group of government officials and diplomats who work in a foreign country and represent their government in that country.
  1. ...a member of the US legation.
     美国公使馆人员
• N-COUNT 公使馆
  Alegationis the building in which a legation works.
  1. We were still at the legation at Eaton Place.
     我们当时还在伊顿广场的公使馆。

英英释义

noun

• the post or office of legate
  Synonym:legateship
• a permanent diplomatic mission headed by a minister
  Synonym:foreign mission

双语例句

• At the dawn of the 20th century the members of the anti-Christian Boxer Uprising, who believed their faith made them impervious to bullets, laid siege to the foreign legation embassy quarter in Beijing and also nearly toppled the empire.
  20世纪初期，反基督教的义和团成员围攻北京的外国使馆区，同样差点推翻了清帝国。义和团成员相信他们的信仰可以让自己刀枪不入。
• After further studies in Beijing, he joined the Chinese legation in St Petersburg as a translator, before eventually entering the diplomatic service in his own right.
  在北京深造后，他成为中国驻圣彼得堡公使馆的一名译员，这是在他最终凭自己的能力进入外交界之前。
• Endovenous laser therapy combined with high legation of great saphenous vein: 19 limbs in 14 patients;
  激光治疗结合高位大隐静脉结扎术，共14例19条肢体；
• We were still at the legation at Eaton Place.
  我们当时还在伊顿广场的公使馆。
• Herbert Squiers, the first secretary at the United States Legation, loaded up rail cars with artworks and then sold them to buy a 700-ton state-of-the-art yacht.
  赫尔伯特·斯奎尔（HerbertSquiers），时任美国公使馆一等秘书，运走了几个火车车厢的艺术品，然后卖了它们，买了一架700吨的时髦游艇。
• Inside the British legation a few armed soldiers walked about the gardens.
  在英国公使馆里，几个武装士兵在花园里踱来踱去。
• Britain has sent a legation to discuss trade and tariffs.
  英国已经派出一个政府代表团来讨论贸易和关税的问题。
• In due course we arrived at the British Legation, which lay within a strong cordon of British-Indian troops.
  最后，我们到达了英国公使馆，使馆周围有英印部队的严密警戒线。
• An Enchiridion of Mandarin was compiled by the students as Interpreters of the Japanese legation in China in Qing Dy-nasty, who sorted out their daily schoolbooks, with the help of their Chinese teachers.
  《官话指南》系日本驻清朝公使馆翻译生在中国教师的帮助下将平日课本整理而成。
• It was Grazia, no longer in love with him and married to a secretary of the Austrian legation.
  这时她已经不跟他相爱而嫁给了奥地利公使馆的一位秘书。