And it was an archaic bureaucratic nightmare.

这是一个古老的官僚噩梦。

My new bureaucratic watchdog office, for instance.

例，我新立的政治监督办。

Some say the UN is too expensive and bureaucratic.

有人认为，联合国陈设华丽，官腔十足。

Before, the word si had meant bureaucratic ministry.

以前“寺”的含义是“官署”。

A light management team, freed from bureaucratic excess has helped, too.

精简的、摆脱官僚主义束缚的管理团队也起到作用。

Who did all this? - The creaking old bureaucratic machine.

谁做的这些？- 那台嘎吱作响的旧官僚机器。

In bureaucratic society it helps to get on easily and smoothly with superiors.

在官僚社会中，它可以使人在上级面前游刃有余。

If it succeeds, it can be launched fully formed, and bureaucratic resistance thus overcome.

果观点，观点就可以为现实，这样做就克服来自官僚制度上的阻力。

Governments can slow that ferocious pace, but bureaucratic time is not the same as virus time.

政府可以放慢这一惊人的速度，但政府举措没有跟上病毒发展速度。

And I must say Hamphrey, these facts are a frightening indictment of bureaucratic sloppiness and self-indulgence.

我得说，汉弗莱，这些事实看来是对官僚作风与自我放纵的可怕谴责。

At first, Amoah was merely frustrated by what he assumed was just a stupid bureaucratic hiccup.

起初，阿莫亚只是对他所认为的愚蠢的官僚小插曲感到不满。

An internal report paid for by GM, blames that problem on bureaucratic inaction, not a deliberate cover-up.

通用汽车的内部报告表明，该问题是由于存在官僚主义不作为，而不是蓄意隐瞒。

But would you agree that there's even more bureaucratic waste there than there is in Whitehall?

但您是否也认为那里的官僚浪费现象比白厅还严重？

Too many civil servants, especially in continental Europe, swirl around a bureaucratic Gormenghast but rarely leave it.

太多的公务员，尤其是在欧洲大陆的公务员，他们漩涡在具有官僚政治的古老王国歌门鬼城身旁，但很少会选择离开它。

But it is a bureaucratic machine that must try to please everybody, because everybody pays for it.

但它是一架官僚机器，必须取悦每一个人，因为每个人都向它支付费用。

Still, opponents of the SunZia project say the years-long saga can't be blamed on bureaucratic hurdles alone.

不过，SunZia 项目的反对者说，持续数年的漫长过程不能仅仅归咎于官僚主义障碍。

It will probably replace bureaucratic impediments to capital mobility with price-based deterrents, such as taxes on foreign holdings.

政府可能会用基于价格的阻碍手段（例对外国股份征税）来取代资本流动性的官僚主义的障碍。

But our procedures and our security screening for refugees is extremely bureaucratic and cumbersome and slow and expensive.

但我们对于难民的安置手续及安检程序非常官僚化，而且极其繁琐，异常缓慢，价格又昂贵。

The expansion of the Civil Service is the result of parliamentary legislation, not bureaucratic empire-building.

公务员编制庞大是议会立法的结果，与官僚帝国无关。

One survey found that bureaucratic delays led the average H-2A worker to arrive on the job 22 days late.

一项调查发现，官僚延误导致持 H-2A 签证的务工人员到岗时间平均推迟 22 天。