The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
— Eugene McCarthy  ·  Bureaucracy

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liberty ['lɪbɚti] 词频1 词根: liber
n. 自由;许可权;放肆，无礼;解放，释放;
💡 liber自由+ty表名词 → 自由
"the fight for justice and liberty"
争取正义和自由的斗争
近义：freedom
bureaucracy [bjʊ'rɑkrəsi] 词根: crat
n. 官僚主义;官僚机构;官僚政治;
💡 bureau政府机构+cracy统治 → 官僚政治
"the idiocies of bureaucracy"
官僚体系所为的蠢事
thing [θiŋ] 词频1
n. 事件，形势;东西，事物;家伙;事业;
"She was the only thing that made life bearable."
只因有了她生活才可以过得下去。
近义：item, knickknack, article, object, tchotchke, thingamabob
inefficiency [[ini'fiʃənsi]]
n. 无效率, 无能\\n[化] 效率低; 效率差
近义：inability, inadequacy, incompetence, incompetency, insufficiency, lack 反义：output, outturn, performance, production, return, throughput
efficient [i'fiʃənt] 词频3 词根: ef
adj. 有效率的;（直接）生效的;能干的;（因省钱、省时或省力等而）收效大的;
💡 一分手（谐音）：一分手就有新欢了， 效率真高 e(出)+fic(做)+ient(的):快速做出来的- 有效率的
"the efficient use of energy"
能源的有效利用
近义：operative, active, productive, effective, effectual, efficacious 反义：incapable, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexpert
threat [θret] 词频3 词根: thr-
n. 威胁;恐吓;凶兆;
💡 thr通过（＝through），eat吃：通过吃来威胁－－这是威胁小孩的法宝
"This poses a threat to agriculture and the food chain, and consequently to human health."
这会对农业和食物链造成威胁，由此而危及人的健康。
近义：menace, pressure, coercion, commination, duress, parlousness

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"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency."
"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important."
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🏷 更多「Bureaucracy」名言

"Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses."
— Unknown
"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status."
— Laurence J. Peter
"Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy."
— Charles Peters
"Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned."
— Milton Friedman
"The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility."
— Brooks Atkinson
"The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up."
— Scott Adams
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