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red tape

繁文缛节,官僚主义,官僚作风,官僚机构

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : excessive formality and routine required before official action can be taken.

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Examples

  • Oak Flat translates this aggravating world of red tape and tedium into a thoughtful, often beautiful, and deeply human story.

  • In France, administrative red tape and a lack of nursing home staff hobbled the early days of the vaccine campaign.

  • From giving tax incentives to promising lower red tape and even freeing up industrial land “twice the size of Luxembourg,” the Modi government has made the “Make in India” initiative a cornerstone of its policymaking.

  • On housing, it’s basically a checklist of policies he went on to implement – densifying neighborhoods, cutting red tape, streamlining approval processes.

  • If convalescent plasma works, the EUA could save thousands of lives without regulatory red tape.

  • Former Red Sox star Curt Schilling says his politics are keeping him out of Cooperstown.

  • Nor does the jet have the ability to capture high-definition video, utilize an infra-red pointer.

  • My agent at the time sent that tape to SNL and then they asked me to come in for an audition.

  • There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.

  • A Republican candidate hoping to win red state support could find a worse team to root for than one from Dallas.

  • Beginners must be warned against mistaking the edges of cells, or particles which have retained the red stain, for bacilli.

  • Under the internal pressure his whiskers stood on end and his face grew red.

  • “You appear to feel it so,” rejoined Mr. Pickwick, smiling at the clerk, who was literally red-hot.

  • Ripperda's eye fell upon the mantle,—it was discoloured a dark red in many places, he nodded his head, and the man withdrew.

  • C was a Captain, all covered with lace; D was a drunkard, and had a red face.