grand coalition

基本解释

With a federal election due by September 2009 each partner in the grand coalition can do little but think of how to win by a margin wide enough to jettison the other.
德国在2009年九月将进行联邦选举，使得大联合政府的每一位成员都想着如何才能与对手拉开足够大的差距以赢得选举。
But a fresh Merkel government is far more likely to make the attempt if it takes the form of a CDU-FDP (black-yellow) coalition than if it is another grand coalition.
但是，一个全新的默克尔政府很有可能愿意做些尝试，只要新政府的联合形式是基民盟与自民党（黑-黄联盟），而不是原来那个大联合政府。
At first, red-red-green seemed the only alternative to a grand coalition.
最初看来，红-红-绿似乎是组成大联合政府的唯一选择。

And I'm not sure that the grand coalition can really push these reforms forward.
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