不必要的会议、无谓的争端、官僚作风、故作姿态、应对别人的错误、交通拥堵、让人上瘾但没有回报的消遣。

Unnecessary meetings, pointless disputes, bureaucracy, posturing, dealing with other people's mistakes, traffic jams, addictive but unrewarding pastimes.

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And of course, the kings when we see them in Homer do not have a bureaucracy, do not have scribes.

当然,从《荷马史诗》中所看到的那些国王,他们没有官僚作风,没有随身抄写员

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