官僚Quotations about Bureaucracy

时间：2007-06-29 01:29:59

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A memorandum1 is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson

 

I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing2 sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams

 

A conference is a gathering3 of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen

 

We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency4, and demoralization.
-- Petronius Arbiter5, 210 B.C.

 

Meetings are an addictive6, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually7 engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry

 

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat8 scorned.
-- Milton Friedman

 

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover

 

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious9, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus10, and you've got to make it stop.
-- Mario Savio, (1943-1996)

 


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1 memorandum aCvx4     
n.备忘录，便笺
参考例句：
  • The memorandum was dated 23 August,2008.备忘录上注明的日期是2008年8月23日。
  • The Secretary notes down the date of the meeting in her memorandum book.秘书把会议日期都写在记事本上。
2 whooshing 96ade91f86a762411ba01c47b6f3c856     
v.（使）飞快移动( whoosh的现在分词 )
参考例句：
  • I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. 我喜欢最后期待。我尤其喜欢它们飞驰而过时发出的嗖嗖声。 来自互联网
  • The constant whooshing of the wind across the roof wouldn't fade into the background. 不断跑车疾速的风雨整个屋顶不会褪色的背景。 来自互联网
3 gathering ChmxZ     
n.集会，聚会，聚集
参考例句：
  • He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
  • He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。
4 inefficiency N7Xxn     
n.无效率，无能；无效率事例
参考例句：
  • Conflict between management and workers makes for inefficiency in the workplace. 资方与工人之间的冲突使得工厂生产效率很低。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • This type of inefficiency arises because workers and management are ill-equipped. 出现此种低效率是因为工人与管理层都能力不足。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 arbiter bN8yi     
n.仲裁人，公断人
参考例句：
  • Andrew was the arbiter of the disagreement.安德鲁是那场纠纷的仲裁人。
  • Experiment is the final arbiter in science.实验是科学的最后仲裁者。
6 addictive hJbyL     
adj.(吸毒等)使成瘾的，成为习惯的
参考例句：
  • The problem with video game is that they're addictive.电子游戏机的问题在于它们会使人上瘾。
  • Cigarettes are highly addictive.香烟很容易使人上瘾。
7 habitually 4rKzgk     
ad.习惯地，通常地
参考例句：
  • The pain of the disease caused him habitually to furrow his brow. 病痛使他习惯性地紧皱眉头。
  • Habitually obedient to John, I came up to his chair. 我已经习惯于服从约翰，我来到他的椅子跟前。
8 bureaucrat Onryo     
n. 官僚作风的人，官僚，官僚政治论者
参考例句：
  • He was just another faceless bureaucrat.他只不过是一个典型呆板的官员。
  • The economy is still controlled by bureaucrats.经济依然被官僚们所掌控。
9 odious l0zy2     
adj.可憎的，讨厌的
参考例句：
  • The judge described the crime as odious.法官称这一罪行令人发指。
  • His character could best be described as odious.他的人格用可憎来形容最贴切。
10 apparatus ivTzx     
n.装置，器械；器具，设备
参考例句：
  • The school's audio apparatus includes films and records.学校的视听设备包括放映机和录音机。
  • They had a very refined apparatus.他们有一套非常精良的设备。

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