interpellation
英 [ɪn,tɜːpe'leɪʃən]
美[,ɪntɚpɛ'leʃən]
- n. 质询；要求说明（一般由议员在议会中向内阁部长等提出）
英英释义
- 1. (parliament) a procedure of demanding that a government official explain some act or policy
- 2. the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts
英文词源
- interpellation (n.)
- late 15c., "an appeal," from Latin interpellationem, noun of action from past participle stem of interpellare "to interrupt by speaking," from inter "between" (see inter-) + pellare, collateral form of pellere "to drive" (see pulse (n.1)).