常見例句He was knighted in 1957 and later made a life peer. 他於1957年被封爲(wèi)爵士,而且後來也成爲(wèi)一位終身貴族。He was knighted in 1992 and created and an honorary life peer in 1997. 韋伯於1992年被授予爵士頭啣,1997年晉陞爲(wèi)終身貴族。A life peer is created by the Government under the Life Peerages Act 1958, which also admitted women to membership for the first time. 在1958年的終身貴族法案中,政府確認(rèn)了這項(xiàng)封號,同時(shí)還第一次給予婦女獲得爵位的權(quán)利。Most of the Lords are "hereditary" which means that their titles have come down from father to son, but recently a new sort of Lord, a "life peer", has been introduced into the House of Lords. 大多數(shù)勛爵是“世襲”的,即兒子可以繼承父親的頭啣。但近來一種新的勛爵,即“非世襲的終身貴族”進(jìn)入了上議院。Its membership is composed of peers and life peers and bishops. 從理論上說,在民主時(shí)代,它不可能立足。There is, therefore, a reducing aristocratic dimension but there is no democratic dimension at all since life peers are appointed and not elected. 由於終讅貴族式指定或任命的,而不是選擧的,因此,貴族政治在弱化,但是民主政治卻沒有增強(qiáng)。 返回 life peer