英语词汇veto的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

veto. Veto, for “a head of state’s power to annul a law passed by a lower body,” is the Latin for “I forbid,” and was the word used by the Roman tribunes to oppose measures of the Roman Senate. Pocket veto is a U.S. term, meaning the veto of a bill by the President or a state’s governor in the closing days of a legis- lative session by retaining it unsigned, by “pocketing” it; it was first employed by Andrew Jackson. France’s Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were called Monsieur and Madame Veto be- cause they vetoed so many decrees of the Constituent Assembly in 1791.

词汇	veto
词源	veto. Veto, for “a head of state’s power to annul a law passed by a lower body,” is the Latin for “I forbid,” and was the word used by the Roman tribunes to oppose measures of the Roman Senate. Pocket veto is a U.S. term, meaning the veto of a bill by the President or a state’s governor in the closing days of a legis- lative session by retaining it unsigned, by “pocketing” it; it was first employed by Andrew Jackson. France’s Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were called Monsieur and Madame Veto be- cause they vetoed so many decrees of the Constituent Assembly in 1791.
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