bureaucracy

• n. 官僚主义；官僚机构；官僚政治

bureau, 办公室。cracy, 统治。

bureaucracy (n.)

1818, from French bureaucratie, coined by French economist Jean Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712-1759) on model of democratie, aristocratie, from bureau "office," literally "desk" (see bureau) + Greek suffix -kratia denoting "power of" (see -cracy).

That vast net-work of administrative tyranny ... that system of bureaucracy, which leaves no free agent in all France, except for the man at Paris who pulls the wires. [J.S. Mill, "Westminster Review" XXVIII, 1837]

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bureaucrat, &c. The formation is so barbarous that all attempt at self-respect in pronunciation may perhaps as well be abandoned. [Fowler]

1. People usually complain about having to deal with too much bureaucracy.

人们经常抱怨不得不应付太多的繁文缛节。

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2. His firm must contend with the unwieldy Russian bureaucracy.

他的公司必须与俄罗斯庞大的官僚机构周旋。

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3. They're making efforts to streamline their normally cumbersome bureaucracy.

他们正努力精简本来繁冗复杂的官僚体制。

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4. They are faced with a mountain of bureaucracy.

他们面对一大堆繁文缛节。

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5. Bureaucracy can entangle ventures for months.

官僚体制会使风险投资搁置好几个月。

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