The sweat of Labour washed away his bureaucratic [official] AIRS.

劳动的汗水冲掉了他身上的官气。

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The sweat of labour washed away his bureaucratic airs.

劳动的汗水冲掉了他身上的官气。

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He has crawled in the huge bureaucratic machinery for several decades, till to zenith, where he kicked this machinery aside though, and the falling down of this machinery also means his falling.

他在这个庞大的官僚机器里爬行了几十年，爬到顶峰，却一脚踹开了这个机器，而这个机器的倒塌也意味着他自己的坠落。

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Mr Panetta will need to use his bureaucratic skills to compete with other agencies.

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Mr Brands does not give too much credence to the theory that its onset was somehow connected with the shame Roosevelt felt about his bureaucratic responsibility for a scandal involving the homosexual entrapment of sailors.

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It fell to Armitage to try to overturn or undermine those policies Powell opposed, in the interagency process, through leaks to the press (whose appreciation has been reflected in generally kid-glove treatment of the revelation of his role in the Plame affair), via back-channels with foreign governments and, not least, through attacks on his bureaucratic rivals.

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