1·In return for his generosity, the legislature voted that the school be named Harvard College.
为了报答他的慷慨，立法机关投票决定将这所学校命名为哈佛学院。
2·Mr Dayton seems to be banking on the fact that the entire legislature is up for re-election next year, whereas he will not face the voters again until 2014.
鉴于整个立法机关都在为明年的重新选举做准备，戴顿先生似乎在蓄势待发，因为他直到2014年才参加新的选举。
3·Some of his fellow Republicans in the legislature are beginning to edge away from his insistence that scrapping collective bargaining for state workers is non-negotiable.
在立法机关中，他的一些共和党同僚也开始缓缓避开他所坚持的立场——剥夺雇员的集体谈判权没有商量的余地。
4·Florida's legislature recently debated a bill to remove licensing requirements from 20 occupations, including hair-braiding, interior design and teaching ballroom-dancing.
佛罗里达州的立法机关最近讨论取消20个工作的执照要求，包括理发师、室内设计师、交际舞老师。
5·Yesterday morning, I turned in my resignation from my day job (I work with U.S. military veterans for the Guam Legislature). OK, it doesn’t actually take effect until the end of next week, but still.
昨天早上，我提交了辞职书（我和美国退伍老兵为关岛立法机关工作）好吧，它实际上要到下周末才生效，但仍然。
1·It was originally planned as a reference library for the federal legislature.
最初，它计划用来作为联邦立法机构的参考图书馆。
2·In 2006, the state went a step further, requiring that any extension of the plant's license be subject to Vermont legislature's approval.
2006年,政府更进一步要求所有工厂许可证的延期都必须经过佛蒙特州立法机构的批准。
3·The legislature currently has 299 seats, of which 243 are elected by regional vote and the remaining is distributed by the proportional representation ballot.
立法机构当前有299个席位，其中的243由地方投票选出，其余的席位是按照比例进行投票选出的。
4·The norms and practices of the legislature do not foster good policy-making.
立法机构的规范和习惯并不能出现好的决策。
5·Assuming Republicans have indeed taken Virginia's Senate and Mississippi's House, they will control every legislature in the South save in the fringe states of Arkansas, Kentucky and West Virginia.
假设共和党最终拿下弗吉利亚州的参议院以及密西西比州的众议院，那他们将控制除了阿肯色州、肯塔基州和西弗吉尼亚州等三个边缘州之外的南方所有立法机构。