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A Eurocrat is a person who works as an official for the European Union — the club of European countries that share many laws and, for a lot of them, money. You will meet the word in newspapers and in angry political talk far more than on anyone’s office door. It is not a kind job title. It often means “one of those EU people in Brussels who make rules the rest of us did not ask for.” Though actually, many so-called Eurocrats are ordinary government workers doing paper work, same as in any capital. The word almost always feels a little cold, and it is much more at home in a British headline than in friendly chat.
歐盟官僚(報紙用語,常不好聽;中性說法是歐盟官員)
組成A blend of euro- (Europe / the EU) and bureaucrat. People also read it as euro- + -crat. The ending -crat comes from ancient Greek kratos, “power” or “rule.” The bureau in bureaucrat is French for “office.”
同家族的字
- bureaucratEurocrat was made by joining euro- to this word
- democratshares the ending -crat, from Greek kratos, “rule” or “power”
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。
Eurocratnoun
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derogatoryslangAn employee or minister of the European Union, typically working in Brussels or Strasbourg.
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。