bureaucracy

UK:  [bjʊə'rɒkrəsi]

US:  [bjə'rɑkrəsi]

复数：bureaucracies  

n.

1.官僚主义;官僚政治,官僚机构

2.〔集合词〕官僚

3.科层制

4.政府机构

5.官员

1 . What Truman meant by that, of course, was that ultimately the bureaucracy rules Washington.
杜鲁门那话的意思，无疑是指官僚主义主宰着华盛顿。

2 . And he turfed thousands of Baath Party members out of the bureaucracy, thereby depriving many ministries of their only trained staff.
同时，他还将数以千计的复兴社会党（BaathParty）成员驱逐出官僚机构，因而也就使得许多部门被剥夺了他们唯一受过训练的人员来源。

3 . He outlined a number of future entrepreneurial ideas, but bureaucracy was such a problem over here, he said.
他罗列了很多关于将来的雄心大志，但是说这里的官僚衙门是个问题。

4 . During all that time they referred to the troops as "ministerial, " as if the Crown's bureaucracy, not the king, waged the war.
之前的日子里，他们将英军称为“内阁军”，好象是英王的内阁而非是英王发动了这场战争。

5 . And if Beijing saw that foreign investment really was dropping off, the bureaucracy would be very worried.
如果北京方面看到外国投资真的日渐减少，官员们会非常担心。