A town of central Belgium near Brussels. Napoleon met his final defeat in the Battle of Waterloo(June18, 1815). 滑铁卢比利时中部靠近布鲁塞尔的城镇。拿破仑在滑铁卢上役中(1815年6月18日)遭到了决定性失败
Since leaving Paris, we've visited Brussels and Amsterdam. 自从离开巴黎后,我们参观了布鲁塞尔和阿姆斯特丹。
Brussels, which is the headquarters of the common market, is an attractive city. 欧洲共同市场的总部所在地布鲁塞尔是座美丽的城市。
brussels
[ noun ] the capital and largest city of Belgium; seat of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization <noun.location>
Brussels \Brus"sels\, n. A city of Belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc.
{Brussels carpet}, a kind of carpet made of worsted yarn fixed in a foundation web of strong linen thread. The worsted, which alone shows on the upper surface in drawn up in loops to form the pattern.
{Brussels ground}, a name given to the handmade ground of real Brussels lace. It is very costly because of the extreme fineness of the threads.
{Brussels lace}, an expensive kind of lace of several varieties, originally made in Brussels; as, Brussels point, Brussels ground, Brussels wire ground.
{Brussels net}, an imitation of Brussels ground, made by machinery.
{Brussels point}. See {Point lace}.
{Brussels sprouts} (Bot.), a plant of the Cabbage family, which produces, in the axils of the upright stem, numerous small green heads, or ``sprouts,'' each a cabbage in miniature, of one or two inches in diameter; the thousand-headed cabbage.
{Brussels wire ground}, a ground for lace, made of silk, with meshes partly straight and partly arched.
After Gdansk, he retired to the ambassadorship in Brussels.
West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher met with Baker in Brussels on Friday to discuss the disarmament dispute and the Soviet proposals.
In Brussels, the hope is that the Danes will outline their thoughts at the London summit next month.
Woerner, former German defense minister, led off the outdoor celebrations at NATO headquarters on an unseasonably cold day in Brussels.
That comes a week from tomorrow, the day Bush confronts a troublesome West German ally at a NATO summit in Brussels.
European Unions ministers responsible for the single market meet in Brussels. Informal meeting of the European Union social affairs ministers in Greece. Results from Smith & Nephew and TI Group. FRIDAY: Usable steel production (February).
In Amsterdam, Brussels and Zurich, it also was the last 1987 trading day.
Amsterdam shares closed mostly lower and were narrowly mixed in Brussels.
Brussels is the headquarters of the 16-nation North American Treaty Organization.
Is there time to find some Brussels directive that will stop this game before it gets out of hand? If Highland Fling is anything to go by, there is a case against Bourne for aggravated and witless vandalism. The piece is an unabashed stinker.
The previous week, New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange complained in Brussels, the EC headquarters, about new Common Market restrictions on New Zealand apples and about possible problems related to 1992.
Stocks also rose in Brussels, Amsterdam and Stockholm.
Elsewhere, share prices closed higher in Madrid, lower in Paris, Zurich and Milan and were mixed in Stockholm, Brussels and Amsterdam.
On Friday, Kohl is slated to fly to Brussels for talks with EEC officials about the possible effects of a common German currency on the EEC's own European Monetary System.
In Europe, share prices were higher in Brussels, Stockholm and Amsterdam and lower in Paris, Milan, London and Frankfurt.
'The tensions between donors and recipients in the Community is one of the coming big themes,' says a US diplomat in Brussels. The next big political test for the EC will be how it tackles the Danish question.
The matter will also not be taken up at a bilateral meeting of ministers taking place in Brussels Friday because the U.S. and EEC agriculture negotiators had to stay in Montreal longer than expected and did not get to Belgium in time.
Warsaw was the site of the signing of the Warsaw Pact treaty in 1955 and Brussels is the administrative center for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
Foreign Minister Mark Eyskens said in Brussels Friday that Belgian citizens who wanted to leave Rwanda could fly out on the same planes that brought in the 300 troopers.
Mr. Leysen's proposal also depends on the Brussels Commercial Court's restoring full voting rights to the 12 million special shares issued by Generale de Belgique to defend itself from Mr. De Benedetti.
We don't need to do it again." In Brussels, meanwhile, European Community foreign ministers said they would step up pressure on Iraq to open talks with a U.N. envoy on the fate of hundreds of Westerners that Baghdad is holding.
He has called on countries such as France and Belgium to take advantage of the looser ERM arrangements to cut interest rates and promote economic recovery. In Brussels, the Commission is pinning its hopes on the European Monetary Institute.
For instance, Brussels aims to loosen manufacturers' monopoly over spare parts and to reduce obstacles to cross-border car purchases, repeatedly blamed by consumers' organisations for creating gaping differences in car prices across the EU.
This is already happening within Europe through the EC. On a global level, the first international conference on harmonisation in Brussels last November was an important step toward bringing the US, Japan and Europe into line.
In other European markets, equities closed mixed in Milan but fell in Paris, Zurich, Brussels, Amsterdam and Stockholm.
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Nato ambassadors yesterday rebuffed Moscow's demand for an alternative to the Partnership for Peace arrangement, in a move that casts a shadow over next week's visit to Brussels by General Pavel Grachev, the Russian defence minister.
This smacks of 'yet another EC effort to drag its heels on an issue', one said. No negotiators are forecasting a procurement deal will be reached in Brussels next week.
It is then turned over successively to controllers in Maastricht, the Netherlands; Brussels; Rheims, France; Paris; Marseille; and Barcelona.
"Marx would have turned over in his grave if he could have heard Comrade Zhivkov talk that way," Whitehead told reporters after discussing his six-nation trip with officials of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels.