假若我们还要维持庞大的机构，那就会正中敌人的奸计。

If we maintain our enormous apparatus, we shall fall right into his trap.

youdao

敌人以庞大的机构向我们压迫，难道我们还可以缩小吗？

The enemy is bearing down upon us with his enormous war apparatus, and how dare we reduce ours?

youdao

在一个像我们这样庞大的机构里，我们偶尔有人疏忽犯错是不可避免的。

In an organisation our size, it is inevitable that we will from time to time see people slip up and make an error.

youdao

You have this bureaucracy that's--it's not really a bureaucracy, but you've got these royal officials representing the royal will, but the actual impact in this vast expanse of the Russian empire isn't that great.

拥有庞大的官僚机构,并非是真正的官僚,但这些皇亲贵戚的确代表了王室的意愿,而实际上,它对幅员辽阔的俄国产生的影响绝非那般重大

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