| 正面 | 5026.bureaucracy 英 [,bjʊ(ə)'rɒkrəsɪ]美 [bjʊ'rɑkrəsi]     |
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| 背面 |     释义： 1. bet(赌博) + ray(光线) => 聚众赌博为光线，赌注为光线，大家聚众赌博，结果被人告密、出卖。2. 记忆：谐音：被踹.3. 【记】be + traitor 成了叛徒；bet + tray 赌博盘子，指为了赌博成了叛徒；bet + try 试图赌博能使人走向背叛，自己的家庭，生活与亲人n. 官僚主义；官僚机构；官僚政治 例句： 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。 bureaucracy 官僚主义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] bureaucrat, &c. The formation is so barbarous that all attempt at self-respect in pronunciation may perhaps as well be abandoned. [Fowler]" |