A bureaucracy is an administrative system operated by a large number of officials.
例句
State bureaucracies can tend to stifle enterprise and initiative.國家的官僚體制往往會扼殺人們的事業(yè)心和積極性。
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官僚作風(fēng)；官僚主義
Bureaucracy refers to all the rules and procedures followed by government departments and similar organizations, especially when you think that these are complicated and cause long delays.
例句
People usually complain about having to deal with too much bureaucracy.人們經(jīng)常抱怨不得不應(yīng)付太多的繁文縟節(jié)。