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An apparatchik is an official who works for a government, a party, or another big organization and who follows orders without really thinking. The word comes from Russian, from the Soviet years: the apparat was the state and party machine, and an apparatchik was someone who worked that machine. In English now the word is almost always . You use it when you want to say a person is loyal to the organization first — a yes-person, more faithful to the line than to what is right. Newspapers and political talk still use it; everyday conversation uses it less, unless someone is being sharp. Though actually, speakers now hang it on company people and party workers far from Russia, not only on old Soviet officials. That wider use is common, but it still carries a sneer. It is not a neutral job title.
黨工；只會聽命辦事的官僚
組成From Russian аппара́тчик (apparátčik, “operator, apparatchik”), from аппара́т (apparát, the apparat or apparatus of the state) + the suffix -чик (-čik), which makes a person-word: someone who works the apparatus.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
apparatchiknoun/ɑːpəˈɹɑːt͡ʃɪk/
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historicalA member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent.
- Whether conservatively toeing their Marx or boldly advocating such heretical Western-style reforms as the primacy of profits, every important planner, apparatchik and economist in Russia is caught up in Communism's greatest debate since Stalin set backward Russia on its cruel-but successful-forced march into the 20th century industrial world.
- In these dire conditions the ambitious Serbo-Croatian Communist Party apparatchik Slobodan Milošević played the national card in Kosovo.
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A blindly loyal bureaucrat.
- Mr. Gonzales came across as a dull-witted apparatchik incapable of running one of the most important departments in the executive branch. […] He delegated responsibility for purging their ranks to an inexperienced and incompetent assistant who, if that’s possible, was even more of a plodding apparatchik.
- He's so outspoken, so little the Labour apparatchik, that Prime Minister Brown decides he can't send this voluble critic of Iraq invasion to sit at a UN occasion alongside George W Bush.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。