The partial transfer of legislative powers from Westminster, implemented by Tony Blair, was designed to give the other members of the club a bigger ________ and to counter centrifugal forces that seemed to threaten the very idea of the union.
【选项释义】 A. say 决定权;发言权 B. transmission 传送;传播 C. decay 衰落;衰败 D. contention 争吵;争执 【考查点】名词辨析。 【解题思路】空格处作give(给)的宾语。由The partial transfer of legislative powers from Westminster, implemented by Tony Blair(托尼•布莱尔将部分立法权从英国议会转移出去)可知,这样做可以让其他成员国拥有更大的发言权。say指在做决定前发表意见影响某事物的权利,因此A选项正确。 【干扰项排除】 B选项transmission“传送;传播”,C选项decay“衰落;衰败”和D选项contention“争吵;争执”均不能和legislative powers(立法权)相对应。 【句意】托尼•布莱尔将部分立法权从英国议会转移出去,目的是让欧盟其他成员国拥有更大的发言权,并对抗似乎威胁到联合王国理念的离心力。