| 单词 | bureaucracy |
|---|---|
| 音标 | [bjuə'rɔkrəsi] |
| 解释 | n.官僚政治 |
| 红宝书 | 【英】 官僚政治(the administration of government through departments and subdivisions managed by appointed officials following an inflexible routine) 【记】 bureau(政府的局、处 等)+cracy(统治) →官僚政治 【同】 派生词: bureaucratic (adj. 官僚的); bureaucratization (n. 官僚政治化) |
| 字源 | 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] |
| 不择手段背单词 | n. 官僚政治(倾向于复杂的过程从而阻碍有效行动的行政制度) 【记】bureau(办公室; 政府的局、处等), cracy统治－官僚政治 【参】bureaucratic(adj 官僚的); bureaucratization(n 官僚政治化) |
| 趣味全助记 | 【记】bureau(政府的局、办公署) + cracy(统治)→官统治，官僚政治 |
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