legation

音标发音

• 英式音标 [lɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən]
• 美式音标 [lɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n.公使馆；使节的派遣

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• The embassy was downgraded to a legation.
  大使馆降为公使馆。
• 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。
• In January 1919 he was identified by the Swedish authorities as a Bolshevik and deported with the Russian legation.
  在1919年二月他被瑞典政权认定为布尔什维克分子，和俄国使馆一起被驱逐出境。

权威例句

• At age 26 he was appointed Minister to the Netherlands, then promoted to the Berlin Legation.
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• The American legation was taken from Berlin by special train to the town of Bad Nauheim, where it was interned, incommunicado, under the supervision of the Gestapo.
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• Perhaps because the U.S. is a country which places less emphasis on big government and more on business the U.S. legation is a relatively small affair, tucked away on the 4th floor of a non-descript building in Perth.
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词组短语

短语

• netherlands legation 荷兰国公使馆
• Legation Street 使馆街;使馆大街
• legation guard 使馆卫队
• permanent legation 常驻使馆
• combined legation 联合使馆

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• a group of officials who represent their government in a foreign country but who have less importance than an embassy

柯林斯英英字典

• A legation is a group of government officials and diplomats who work in a foreign country and represent their government in that country.
• A legation is the building in which a legation works.

专业释义

经济学

• 公使馆；使者的派遣

政治学

• 公使馆