pressure group

noun

1. 压力集团（向政府和公众施加影响的团体）
   a group of people who try to influence the government and ordinary people's opinions in order to achieve the action they want, for example a change in a law
   1. the environmental pressure group ‘Greenpeace’
      “绿色和平”这个环保压力集团

1. N-COUNT （为说服政府或其他权力机关而组织的）压力集团
   A pressure group is an organized group of people who are trying to persuade a government or other authority to do something, for example to change a law.
   1. ...the environmental pressure group Greenpeace.
      环保压力集团“绿色和平”组织

1. It will remain as a pressure group, but no longer has any pretension to be a political party.
   它仍然是一个压力集团，但不再自称是一个政党。
2. Most scientists who can present evidence of an environmental threat can reasonably assume that a pressure group will take up the issue
   能够提供环境威胁证据的大多数科学家都有理由认为，环保团体不会放过这个问题。
3. WiredChild, a UK pressure group, said the implications for children – not included in the Interphone study – were serious.
   英国压力集团WiredChild则表示，手机对儿童的影响也很大，但没有包括在Interphone研究中。
4. The project has already been strongly criticised by associations like Privacy International, a pressure group which has launched legal action against the IT company.
   但这项功能已经遭到众多机构组织的强烈指责，如压力团体“隐私国际”就已经对谷歌公司提出诉讼。
5. The pressure group is pushing for a ban on GM foods.
   压力集团正强烈要求取缔转基因食品。
6. A pressure group whose interests were quite distinct from those of the workers they employed.
   其利益与其雇员的利益截然不同的压力集团。
7. Cronyism and pressure groups dominate, rather than supply based on quality, service and price.
   任人唯亲和压力团体（pressuregroup）占据主导地位，而不是基于质量、服务和价格供应产品的做法。
8. Sources close to the company said it had held talks with United Against Nuclear Iran, an American pressure group which had called on Huawei to pull out of Iran.
   接近该公司的消息人士称，华为与呼吁该公司撤出伊朗的美国压力团体联合反对核伊朗（UnitedAgainstNuclearIran）举行了商谈。
9. Rather he should continue to act as a pressure group for the political parties to clean up their politics, which has been polluted through the use of black money and muscle power over the years.
   他更应该继续作为一个压力团体，敦促政党做到政治廉洁&多年来，因黑钱和权力的运用，政治已是肮脏不堪。
10. They tried to organize themselves into a really effective pressure group.
    他们试图组成一个真正有效的压力集团。
11. Forcing states to accept the permits of the most permissive jurisdictions would be an assault on states'rights, says Mark Glaze of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a pressure group.
    一个来自压迫性团体&市长反对非法枪支的马克格里斯说，迫使州政府接受司法权里最底线的携枪许可证是对州政府权力的蔑视。
12. A conservative pressure group he started, the Hermanator's Intelligent Thinkers Movement ( HITM& get it?), has not had much of an impact.
    他创建的保守派利益团体，赫尔曼智囊运动（音译与打倒自由派相似，明白吗），并没有太大影响力。
13. Meanwhile, the UK pressure group 38 degrees, which monitors the working habits of British MPs, has launched a "wish you were here" campaign, urging followers to take photographs of MPS they spot on holiday.
    与此同时，英国监测议员工作习惯的院外活动集团38degrees发起了一项“希望你在这里”（wishyouwerehere）的行动，敦促追随者拍下在度假场所遭遇的议员照片。
14. The pressure group Action on Smoking and Health claims that the exhaled vapor contains a "deadly" substance, nicotine.
    吸烟与健康活动压力组织断言，呼出的气体包含一种致死性的物质，尼古丁。
15. The head of a political pressure group told VOA his group will take the lawmakers to court for the pay hike, and threatened mass action if the court refused to hear his case.
    一名政治压力组织的领导人对美国之音说，他的团队将把国会议员告上法庭，并威胁说，如果法庭拒绝审理此案，将采取大规模的行动。
16. They were up against a powerful pressure group.
    他们面临着一个强大的压力集团。
17. They have no pressure group working on their behalf.
    他们没有压力集团替他们进行游说。
18. Results Positive correlation is expressed between the level of kidney trauma and the variation of microdose albumin in the high blood pressure group patients and diabetes group patients.
    结果高血压和糖尿病组病人中尿微量白蛋白的变化和肾损伤的程度呈正相关性。
19. Several other stadiums under construction are equally pointless, says the Danish pressure group play the game.
    丹麦压力团体playthegame表示，其他几座在建的体育场同样毫无意义。
20. A rank-and-file pressure group; political candidates seeking rank-and-file support.
    由普通民众组成的抗议集体；争取民众支持的政治候选人。
21. Instead, couples should be striving to "enjoy a greener romance"-at least according to a pressure group in Wales.
    情侣们应尽量享受绿色浪漫&至少威尔士的一个压力集团这样认为。
22. For example etc, a pressure group based in Toronto, is particularly concerned about corporate exploitation of what it calls "extreme genetic engineering".
    例如，总部设在多伦多的压力团体etc对其所称的企业利用“极端基因工程”尤其关注。
23. Mr Davies says working with companies leaves the pressure group more time to spend on issues such as privacy concerns in India and China.
    戴维斯表示，与公司合作让这家压力组织有更多时间，花在印度和中国的隐私权等问题上。
24. Environmental pressure group Greenpeace heaped scorn on the report and accused Merkel of yielding to the powerful nuclear energy lobby, a charge echoed by an increasingly confident opposition.
    环境监督组织绿色和平组织藐视该报告并且指责默克尔屈服于强大的核能游说，由越来越有自信的反对派发出的指控。
25. Result: ( 1) There were significant difference of PAI-1, insulin, C-peptide and Insulin Sensitivity Index ( ISI) between hypertension patient and normal blood pressure group ( P0.01).
    结果：（1）原发性高血压组与对照组相比PAI-1、胰岛素、C-肽和胰岛素敏感性指数（ISI）有极显著差异（P＜0.01）。
26. The first between-subject factor included two levels, having time pressure group and no time pressure group.
    第一个因素是被试间变量，即不同情境，分为有时间压力组和无时间压力组。
27. The prevalence rate of stroke in hypertension group were higher than that in normal blood pressure and high-normal blood pressure group.
    高血压组脑卒中患病率明显高于正常血压组和正常高值血压组。
28. As a special professional group, prison police is also a "pressure group".
    监狱民警作为一个特殊的职业群体，同样也是一个压力群体。

noun

1. a group of people who try actively to influence legislation

   Synonym:    lobbythird house