Bureaucracy
[,bjʊ(ə)'rɒkrəsɪ] or [bjʊ'rɑkrəsi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape.
(noun.) a government that is administered primarily by bureaus that are staffed with nonelective officials.
(noun.) nonelective government officials.
錄入:厄普顿--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A system of carrying on the business of government by means of departments or bureaus, each under the control of a chief, in contradiction to a system in which the officers of government have an associated authority and responsibility; also, government conducted on this system.
(n.) Government officials, collectively.
卡特編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a system of government centralised in graded series of officials responsible only to their chiefs and controlling every detail of public and private life.—ns. Bureau′crat Bureau′cratist one who advocates government by bureaucracy.—adj. Bureaucrat′ic relating to or having the nature of a bureaucracy.—adv. Bureaucrat′ically.
格温錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- It steers a course between exploitation by a bureaucracy in the interests of the consumer--the socialist danger--and oppressive monopolies by industrial unions--the syndicalist danger. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Spanish, the language of bureaucracy. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The Caliph had become a luxurious Emperor or King of Kings; the administration had changed from a patriarchal system to a bureaucracy. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The unquestioned need for experts in politics is full of the very real danger that detailed preparation may give us a bureaucracy--a government by men divorced from human tradition. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Even here one man can make a bureaucracy with his mouth. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- They have settled happily into the sloth and bureaucracy of governing. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
校對:尼古拉斯