| 词源 |
filibuster. Deriving from the Dutch vribuiter, “freebooter or pirate,” filibuster was originally used in American English to describe gun-runners in Central America, men who engaged in war with a country with whom their own country was at peace. Over the years the word came to mean “obstruction of legislation in the U.S. Senate by prolonged speechmaking,” after a congressman described one such obstruction as “filibustering against the U.S.” |