tea party

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Sarah Palin has metamorphosed into a media star, multi-millionaire and tea-party pin-up.
莎拉•珮林已經化身爲媒躰之星、千萬巨富、及茶黨的形象代言人。
The economy dominated the 2008 campaign, and more recently, the “tea-party” movement has been more vocal on fiscal questions than on social issues like abortion.
但2008年是經濟話題主宰大選，近期茶黨的運動也主要圍繞財政問題，而沒有過多地關注墮胎等社會問題。
What is more surprising is that, as the tea-party movement surged through the 2010 election cycle, Texas actually turned out to be one of the less incendiary states.
比這個更讓人喫驚的是，茶黨的運動在2010年中選的過程中飆陞，但事實上德州其實是一個缺乏政治煽動性的州。

Third-term Representative Michele Bachmann is a Republican from Minnesota and a favorite of the Tea Party movement.
Tea Party activists see themselves as modern-day versions of the anti-tax protesters from before the American Revolution.
The name comes from the Boston Tea Party, a colonial tax protest in seventeen seventy-three.

Some fear that the tea-party victories may cost the Republicans their chance of retaking the Senate.
ECONOMIST: Primary elections

an occasion when people meet in the afternoon to drink tea and eat a small amount of food

A tea party is a social gathering in the afternoon at which tea, cakes, and sandwiches are served.