bureaucracy
英 [,bj?(?)'r?kr?s?]
美[bj?'rɑkr?si]
- n. 官僚主義；官僚機構；官僚政治
CET6TEM4IELTSGRE考研中低頻詞常用詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
復數(shù):?bureaucracies;
中文詞源
bureaucracy 官僚主義
bureau, 辦公室。cracy, 統(tǒng)治。
英文詞源
- 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]
雙語例句
- 1. People usually complain about having to deal with too much bureaucracy.
- 人們經(jīng)常抱怨不得不應付太多的繁文縟節(jié)。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. His firm must contend with the unwieldy Russian bureaucracy.
- 他的公司必須與俄羅斯龐大的官僚機構周旋。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. They're making efforts to streamline their normally cumbersome bureaucracy.
- 他們正努力精簡本來繁冗復雜的官僚體制。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. They are faced with a mountain of bureaucracy.
- 他們面對一大堆繁文縟節(jié)。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Bureaucracy can entangle ventures for months.
- 官僚體制會使風險投資擱置好幾個月。
來自柯林斯例句