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Bureaucrat Officials Follow Administrative Make People Procedures 英

英语单词 bureaucrat
英美音标 英 ['bjʊərəkræt] 美 ['bjʊrəkræt]
中文释义 n.官僚作风的人;官僚
英语例句 (1) He is a conservative bureaucrat who can be counted upon to follow a beaten path.
(2) He defines bureaucrat as a desk-bound employee.
(3) A four-to-seven-year-old does as much paperwork as any bureaucrat.
(4) I suppose my application have been lost by some incompetent bureaucrat.
中文例句 (1) 他是一个保守的官僚, 他准会循规蹈矩地办事。
(2) 他把那些坐办公室的人称之为官僚。
(3) 一个四至七岁的孩子所做的书面作业和任何一个官僚所做的一样多。
(4) 我估计我的申请书不知道让哪个无能的官僚给弄丢了。
vocabulary简明 A bureaucrat is an administrative official who works for the government. You brought the budget office bureaucrat a book about literacy, hoping to convince him you need more funding for the library.
vocabulary扩展 The word bureaucrat comes from bureaucracy, which means a system of government where state officials make decisions instead of elected ones. In America, bureaucrat often has a negative ring to it because some people think they make procedures too complicated and time-consuming — driving people crazy but ensuring they, the bureaucrats, stay busy processing it.
柯林斯解释
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]官僚;官僚主义者 Bureaucrats are officials who work in a large administrative system. You can refer to officials as bureaucrats especially if you disapprove of them because they seem to follow rules and procedures too strictly.
  [usu pl]
  [disapproval]
  • The economy is still controlled by bureaucrats.

    经济依然被官僚们所掌控。

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